”Fargeat’s film is sickening in a productive way, using outré body horror techniques to address the cruelty of contemporary beauty standards and the self-loathing that festers in our appearance-obsessed age. It can be a little stupid sometimes and at 140 minutes it’s egregiously overlong, but The Substance is about something, and it’s alive.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 09/19/2024