Our world does not often offer a safe space for female rage. But French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat has carved out a place to explore that emotion in her work. She shapes that anger into a spear to

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity,” says the Good Book, and “The Substance” hastens to add a few more ingredients to the condemned’s last meal: fears of aging, sins of the flesh, daytime exercise shows,

The film is a bold, brutal examination of the ways our cultural obsession with beauty and youth can be oppressive, especially for women. The titular "Substance" is a cosmetic treatment that goes far beyond even the most drastic surgical treatments: Just one injection,