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With sharp wit and cathartic intensity, Coralie Fargeat turns toxic beauty culture inside out in her Oscar®-winning 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.

Refracting the iconic image of lo-fi band Pavement into new, hybrid forms, acclaimed filmmaker Alex Ross Perry innovatively distorts the music documentary. Joe Keery stars alongside the ’90s group, toying with their slacker-indie commitment to alternative culture with dazzling, hilarious subversion.

Things get weird in Amalia Ulman’s kaleidoscopic film, a colorful comedy of errors and an imaginative send-up of millennial media. Starring Simon Rex and Chloë Sevigny, this story of a frantic search for an internet sensation is electrified by wit, subversion, and distinctively fluorescent style.

Physical touch has been eclipsed by taps and clicks, but Eugene Kotlyarenko’s absurdist comedy proposes a spicy aphrodisiac for the modern couple: digital surveillance! Swapping foreplay for spyware apps and screen recordings, this film-within-a-film romp searches for love in the time of drones.

Turning quarantine restrictions into artistic inspiration, Charli XCX led her legions of fans—and herself—out of pandemic blues with the power of music. From DIY recording sessions to livestream confessions, this kaleidoscopic documentary captures the pop icon at her most vulnerable and authentic.