Coralie Fargeat's Cannes-winning sci-fi/horror film is a gruesome tour-de-force for Demi Moore while other top-flight actors struggle to keep lesser vehicles afloat.
For genre fans, I've seen The Substance repeatedly compared to Society, as well as more obscure titles like Boxer's Omen, and that just makes me more eager to see it this weekend in a full recreation of the "Sickos" guy.
To me, the strength of His Three Daughters was that all three of the leads did an amazing job of fleshing out what seem, at the outset, to be "types." The little bits of specificity like Olsen's Deadhead monologue, Lyonne's relationship with the local cop, and Coon's constant projection involving everything Angel the hospice guy tells them, are what gave it power and made it stick, where going more generic "Type A," "homemaker" and "fuck up" would have felt too facile.
I started off pasting each character over people in my own family and came out remembering that every family member contains bits of each of them. Aaaaand now I'm about to start reciting the end of The Breakfast Club so I'll stop. What an ensemble!
I sit in my armchair here the same as anyone but I'm amazed at the moment Apple is pulling out of wide theatrical when arguably smaller distributors have Am I Racist (for a second week to my surprise) and The Substance (a Mubi release! Showing in non-NY/LA theaters with popcorn vessels!) in wide release at AMCs and Regals along with "niche" chains. It's a little confusing even as larger companies like WBD/CNN Films are regulating the Christopher Reeve doc to a Fathom Event before airing it on cable despite it being decent.
i hadn't even heard of this film till I saw the trailer a week ago (at the amazing SING SING) but even from that it didn't look like there was much to the film besides Pitt and Clooney being in it.
Me feel like you have to be trying pretty hard to screw up movie where Clooney and Pitt play criminals, even if you have to go into it knowing there no way this willl be best movie where Clooney and Pitt play criminals or even second-best.
Caught The Substance last night and probably liked it a bit less than the review. It does a lot of Verhoeven / Cronenberg / Society stuff well, but none of it is original and it’s waaaaay too long.
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS was well acted but that final act turn...well let's just say I wished I had seen FOXY BROWN instead (it was playing at the same time in the theater I saw HTD in)
For genre fans, I've seen The Substance repeatedly compared to Society, as well as more obscure titles like Boxer's Omen, and that just makes me more eager to see it this weekend in a full recreation of the "Sickos" guy.
To me, the strength of His Three Daughters was that all three of the leads did an amazing job of fleshing out what seem, at the outset, to be "types." The little bits of specificity like Olsen's Deadhead monologue, Lyonne's relationship with the local cop, and Coon's constant projection involving everything Angel the hospice guy tells them, are what gave it power and made it stick, where going more generic "Type A," "homemaker" and "fuck up" would have felt too facile.
I started off pasting each character over people in my own family and came out remembering that every family member contains bits of each of them. Aaaaand now I'm about to start reciting the end of The Breakfast Club so I'll stop. What an ensemble!
I sit in my armchair here the same as anyone but I'm amazed at the moment Apple is pulling out of wide theatrical when arguably smaller distributors have Am I Racist (for a second week to my surprise) and The Substance (a Mubi release! Showing in non-NY/LA theaters with popcorn vessels!) in wide release at AMCs and Regals along with "niche" chains. It's a little confusing even as larger companies like WBD/CNN Films are regulating the Christopher Reeve doc to a Fathom Event before airing it on cable despite it being decent.
I wasn't expecting greatness from Wolfs, but I didn't think it would be this disappointing
i hadn't even heard of this film till I saw the trailer a week ago (at the amazing SING SING) but even from that it didn't look like there was much to the film besides Pitt and Clooney being in it.
Me feel like you have to be trying pretty hard to screw up movie where Clooney and Pitt play criminals, even if you have to go into it knowing there no way this willl be best movie where Clooney and Pitt play criminals or even second-best.
Caught The Substance last night and probably liked it a bit less than the review. It does a lot of Verhoeven / Cronenberg / Society stuff well, but none of it is original and it’s waaaaay too long.
Dennis Quaid also feels airlifted in from a much different film. Still, lots to like from Moore and Qualley and the movie is quite funny
I thought it started Cronenberg, then moved into Carpenter, and then went full Raimi.
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS was well acted but that final act turn...well let's just say I wished I had seen FOXY BROWN instead (it was playing at the same time in the theater I saw HTD in)