There Are Ways to Be Normal on the Substance From The Substance

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of The Substance.

“There’s been a slight misuse of the substance,” Demi Moore’s Elisabeth Sparkle stammers into a customer-service line around the halfway point of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, a movie built around several misuses of the titular substance. For all the movie purports to be a satire about body image and Hollywood misogyny, it is also, at its core, about taking your medications incorrectly. We’re not just...