Refn has made characters moving and speaking in a benzodiazepine fugue state — lines hissed out stiltedly into dead air, spoken like throwing stones down a well — his signature in recent films.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
His line drive hissed past a leaping Steffen for a 3-2 Miami lead.
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