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The divisive body horror about ageing has won plaudits for star Demi Moore yet some remain unconvinced of its depth

In The Substance, the career of former actor Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is diminished to daytime aerobics instructor on a television network. On her 50th birthday, she is made redundant by a network executive, Harvey (Dennis Quaid), who tells her “renewal is inevitable”.

This body horror instant classic is a pulsing, pumping blitzkrieg of pure entertainment

Coralie Fargeat reimagines the historical misogynist ‘hagsploitation’ genre to powerful effect – at least until her film’s disgusting ending

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat's sophomore feature film, has already been granted the moniker body horror, due its visceral imagery and mutations of the body

Red Rooms, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Coppola’s Megalopolis: here are the 12 films to watch this month

While there’s no out-and-out masterpiece this year, and at times more fun to be had watching the audience fighting, Sean Baker’s acid class comedy, Jacques Audiard’s drug-lord musical and India’s first Palme d’Or contender in decades are knockouts

’The Substance’ received the longest standing ovation of any movie at the Cannes Film Festival so far