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Is The Substance brilliant feminist critique or a soulless mess?

The divisive body horror about ageing has won plaudits for star Demi Moore yet some remain unconvinced of its depth

The Guardian - US

There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique

In The Substance, the career of former actor Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is diminished to daytime aerobics instructor on a television network. On her 50th birthday, she is made redundant by a network executive, Harvey (Dennis Quaid), who tells her “renewal is inevitable”.

The Conversation

The Bloodiest, Most Deranged Sci-Fi Movie Ending of the Year, Explained

'The Substance' director Coralie Fargeat breaks down the wildest and goriest movie ending you'll see this year.

Inverse

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How 'The Substance' Uses Practical Effects and Splashy Makeup to Craft a Body Horror Film That Tears Down Beauty Standards

The makeup and effects artists open up about the behind-the-scenes process on Coralie Fargeat's new movie.

Marie Claire

The Substance review – Demi Moore is fearless in visceral feminist body horror

The star plays a middle-aged TV host who signs up for a drug to generate a replicant of her younger self in Coralie Fargeat’s blood-soaked satire

The Guardian - UK

"The Substance" and beauty's dark side

Despite a chaotic final act, Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley shine in this darkly humorous body horror film

Salon

The Substance review: Demi Moore goes full Cronenberg in 2024's best – and goriest – film so far

This body horror instant classic is a pulsing, pumping blitzkrieg of pure entertainment

Evening Standard

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The Substance review: Demi Moore is sensational, but this body-horror yarn loses its way

Coralie Fargeat reimagines the historical misogynist ‘hagsploitation’ genre to powerful effect – at least until her film’s disgusting ending

The Independent UK

The Substance may be grotesque, but it is not body horror

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat's sophomore feature film, has already been granted the moniker body horror, due its visceral imagery and mutations of the body

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The Cine Files: from Demi Moore in The Substance to Strange Darling, here are September's best films

Red Rooms, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Coppola’s Megalopolis: here are the 12 films to watch this month

Evening Standard

Cannes 2024 week two roundup – scuffles, screwballs and spellbinders

While there’s no out-and-out masterpiece this year, and at times more fun to be had watching the audience fighting, Sean Baker’s acid class comedy, Jacques Audiard’s drug-lord musical and India’s first Palme d’Or contender in decades are knockouts

The Guardian - UK

Demi Moore discusses full-frontal nudity with Margaret Qualley in new movie

’The Substance’ received the longest standing ovation of any movie at the Cannes Film Festival so far

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