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With sharp wit and cathartic intensity, Coralie Fargeat turns toxic beauty culture inside out in her mind-blowing latest feature. Powered by a career-best performance from Demi Moore, The Substance fearlessly bulldozes its way into the midnight-movie pantheon and the feminist canon.

Weaponizing tropes to neo-feminist ends, Coralie Fargeat fires on all cylinders in this killer film. Adrenalized by the same fascination with transformation that sparks across The Substance, the provocateur filmmaker empowers her heroine to go from Barbie to badass with dangerous, delirious style.

Calling upon the tradition of the psychological chamber thriller, Queen of Earth unites an astonishing Elisabeth Moss with Katherine Waterston to burrow deep into the complicated identities of two disaffected women. A fiery exploration of the iron grip emotions—both interior and exterior—have on us.

At once a vibrant pastiche of 1960s horror and a contemporary corrective to the era’s—and the genre’s—sexual politics, The Love Witch is, at heart, a warm look at loneliness and love. Written, directed, and scored by Anna Biller, this vivid ode to cult Technicolor treasures is simply magical.

A punk spirit pervades this endearingly DIY film, which gleefully blends animation, horror, and essay-film tropes into an unpredictable mix. Thrillingly inventive and bursting with hope, Coma addresses with poignancy and frankness the anxieties of a young generation facing an uncertain future.

In this inimitable cult classic starring a magnetic Lee Pace, singular filmmaker Tarsem crafts a magical love letter to the power of storytelling and the human imagination. Now restored in spectacular 4K, this visual feast of magnificent costumes and stunning locations rivals the wildest of dreams.

Paul Schrader’s collaboration with Bret Easton Ellis is a caustic take on a Hollywood that lives off the dashed hopes and broken dreams of an ever-renewing influx of chumps and suckers. Sex and violence reign in this stylish and uncanny vision of Los Angeles, all smooth surfaces and digital grain.