Wow. Ottawa friends: this is playing at the ByTowne on select dates in May. PLEASE see it. Canadian movie of the year, by far.

www.bytowne.ca/movies/blue-heron/

4chan: the movie

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2024 FEATURE! Sunset Boulevard by way of Cronenbergian bodily distortion — director Coralie Fargeat’s latest film, The Substance, is wickedly fun and continues the recent blockbuster trend of female-led horror flicks.

Read my full feature for Film Threat here!

They needed a real freak to direct this. Give me Lynne Ramsay, give me Catherine Breillat. A common misconception about perversion is that it is in your face. In reality, deviance materializes through subtlety—in the details. Fennel takes a wrecking ball to subtlety and repurposes arthouse aesthetics for commercial ends.

This movie would be so stupid if it wasn’t already so boring and flat.