Coralie Fargeat's broad, bloody satire flips the bird to showbiz's youth obsessions and beauty double standards — in the grossest way imaginable.
) was a star whose Walk of Fame plaque was a prime tourist attraction and nonstop selfie backdrop. Now, Sparkle hosts a fitness morning show that carbon-dates back to the 1990s. Her odious, sexist boss, Harvey — we’re sure the name has no real-world significance or symbolic import at all, nope, no siree Bob — has handed Elisabeth her walking papers so he can recast the a.m. slot with some younger, hotter model.
Once the movie turns into a standoff between the Sparkles, and Fargeat gives her actors a syrup-soaked stage on which to rage — if Moore’s extraordinary, best-of-career performance doesn’t kick off a full Demi-aissance, there is no God — this riff on‘s plasma-gushing elevator to shame? You got it! Not even certain story-logic lapses suck away the thrill of seeing these women tear impossible beauty standards a new one.won’t reset society’s fixation on youth or cure Hollywood’s sexist ills.
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