The Substance
By Jeffery Berg September 18, 2024
The well-worn Sunset Boulevard yarn of a Hollywood’s star’s fading relevancy gets a garish, unsubtle, and searing revamp.
The well-worn Sunset Boulevard yarn of a Hollywood’s star’s fading relevancy gets a garish, unsubtle, and searing revamp.
A riff on a familiar horror setting: the creepy house/facility in the middle of nowhere.
Nicolas Cage has never before created a monster this unforgettable.
A throwback to the long-revered era of exaggerated 1980s horror.
The raw and distressing film depicts how the desire to die found in religion becomes a brutal and sinister way of getting relief.
An odd, offbeat little gem wrapped up in an 18th-century vampire tale.
This allegory takes some of the worst experiences of puberty to become, at times, a genuinely bewildering horror movie.
A zombie movie that could be described as Bergmanesque for exploring ideas about death and grief.