"The Substance" is a dark modern fable that starts out blaming men for reducing women to sex objects and then cuts deeper.
Consequently, The Substance goes off the rails long before Fargeat spins the spigot and drenches the audience in a climactic ...
Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle – an Oscar-winning actress and TV personality who is instantly deemed over-the-hill on her 50th ...
Coralie Fargeat’s bloody-as-hell satire lets the star flip the bird to showbiz’s youth obsessions and beauty double standards ...
Our world does not often offer a safe space for female rage. But French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat has carved out a place to ...
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star in one of the year’s most provocative films, taking the body horror genre to even more ...
If there’s a critique to be made about the film, it’s that the satire and caricatures are a bit heavy-handed, with most of ...
When it comes to upcoming horror movies, one of this year’s best may be hitting theaters this weekend, with Demi Moore ’s ...
Some might criticize the film as shock for shock value's sake, but that ethos is exactly what makes “The Substance” shine so ...
In its first two hours, “The Substance” is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences ...
That’s what you’re in for with The Substance, a body horror thriller from MUBI. The film stars Demi Moore as Elisabeth ...