The Eyes Of Tammy Faye Review: Jessica Chastain Shines In An Otherwise Muddled Movie [TIFF 2021]

The Eyes of Tammy Faye” is an insecure movie.

What does this film want to be? A wacky comedy? A biting satire? A drama with occasional bursts of humor? I suppose you could argue it could be all those things, and more – and I’d agree.

But there would need to be some cohesive element tying all of that together.

Unfortunately, director Michael Showalter never finds that and instead relies on clumsy, on-the-nose humor with occasional bursts of earnestness.

It’s clear that the movie thinks it’s sympathetic toward Tammy Faye Bakker, the wife of infamous televangelist Jim Bakker.

But is it, really? While…The post The Eyes of Tammy Faye Review: Jessica Chastain Shines in An Otherwise Muddled Movie [TIFF 2021] appeared first on /Film.

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