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THE SUBSTANCE

R, Now Playing, 2h 21m, Horror/ Drama TRAILER for Buy Tickets List 90% 264
Reviews Tomatometer 71% 500+ Verified Ratings Popcornmeter
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90% Tomatometer 264 Reviews 71% Popcornmeter 500+ Verified Ratings
Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every
way. You should try this new product, it's called The Substance. IT CHANGED MY
LIFE. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more beautiful,
more perfect. You just have to share time -- one week for one, one week for the
other. A perfect balance of seven days each... Easy right? If you respect the
balance... What could possibly go wrong?
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Audaciously gross, wickedly clever, and possibly Demi Moore's finest hour, The
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Wenlei Ma The Nightly (AU) The Substance wields its power not with the precision
of a scalpel but a jackhammer. Rated: 2.5/5 •  Sep 25, 2024 Full Review Stephen
Romei The Australian This is a film unlike any other you will see right now. It
will not be to everyone's taste. For this reviewer, who craves originality, it
is a winner. Rated: 4/5 •  Sep 25, 2024 Full Review Odie Henderson Boston Globe
The last 20 or so minutes of this movie — the best part — is wall-to-wall,
nonstop blood and gore, mostly done with those old-school practical effects fans
like me prefer. The delightful yuck factor made me forgive the film’s numerous
problems. Rated: 3/4 •  Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Joe Friar Fort Worth Report
Coralie Fargeat dismantles the body horror boys club with the help of Demi
Moore’s audacious performance. Rated: 3.5/4 •  Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Jeffrey
M. Anderson Common Sense Media A brilliantly savage satire on the male gaze and
women's self image, this body-horror movie goes all the way up to the edge and
past it. Even the most jaded viewers may want to cover their eyes in some
scenes. Rated: 4/5 •  Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Abby Monteil them. Your enjoyment
of the movie will chiefly depend on willing you are to buy into its absurdist
heightened reality, which has very little interest in anything resembling
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Calvin I have never seen a movie that I just wanted to end so badly. A few times
I said to myself, please just make it stop. And then it just got worse. Rated
2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/27/24 Full Review Edward P Absolutely
vile and grotesque, but brilliantly haunting. Shook so many of my personal
insecurities with my body. I literally cannot stop thinking about it. Being in
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stars 09/27/24 Full Review Henry The most entertaining and twisted movie I’ve
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Lisa C Great premise so I was hopeful, but it devolved into gratuitous blood,
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Synopsis Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better
in every way. You should try this new product, it's called The Substance. IT
CHANGED MY LIFE. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more
beautiful, more perfect. You just have to share time -- one week for one, one
week for the other. A perfect balance of seven days each... Easy right? If you
respect the balance... What could possibly go wrong?
Director Coralie Fargeat
Producer Coralie Fargeat, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan
Screenwriter Coralie Fargeat
Distributor MUBI
Production Co Working Title Films
Rating R (Language|Graphic Nudity|Gore|Strong Violent Content)
Genre Horror, Drama
Original Language English
Release Date (Theaters) Sep 20, 2024, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA) $3.2M
Runtime 2h 21m
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