“The Substance” was lauded upon its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it was up for the Palme d’Or and won the best screenplay award. Earlier this month, it took home the Midnight Madness people’s choice award at the Toronto International Film Fest. “The Substance” is currently playing in theaters.

The new body-horror movie "The Substance" is a wild time, It also took co-stars Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley way out of their comfort zones.

"The Substance" is a dark modern fable that starts out blaming men for reducing women to sex objects and then cuts deeper. Fargeat saves a special rage for women who conspire in their own diminishment, trading their soul in a pulse beat for a few more shining hours as a goddess.

Despite scoring a better CinemaScore than the new entry Never Let Go, Demi Moore's gory body horror failed to crack the top five films at the domestic box

Three things need to be said about “The Substance” at the outset: First, it is a movie that’s so extreme that it makes you wonder — in the best way — if the filmmaker is crazy. Second, this is, without doubt,

The Substance” blowtorches a single idea for two hours and 20 minutes, and narratively it turns to ashes by minute 40. It’s easier for a movie to become a talking point that way. Film festival buzz, which “The Substance” enjoyed at its Cannes world premiere,

Coralie Fargeat’s sci-fi shocker follows the downward spiral of a 50-year-old movie star who resorts to drastic measures