You survived all 140 bloody, bonkers, absolutely bats--- minutes of The Substance. Sadly, Demi Moore's Elisabeth Sparkle (and her younger self, Sue, played by Margaret Qualley) did not. But, as ...
"Old age ain’t no place for sissies,” Bette Davis once famously quipped, and neither is “The Substance,” writer/director ...
Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is the star of a hit aerobics show, but it all comes crashing down for her when her sleazy ...
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 ...
Consequently, The Substance goes off the rails long before Fargeat spins the spigot and drenches the audience in a climactic ...
The Substance is a primal scream of anger and frustration about the treatment of women in the entertainment industry and ...
Part of this misuse comes down to the convoluted rule that both the older user of the substance and the younger user can only be out and about for seven days at a time before going to sleep so that ...
Beauty – and monstrosity – are skin deep in The Substance, writes Ty Burr in this review for the Washington Post (spoilers ...