The Eyes of Tammy Faye

critic Reviews

, 68% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • The Eyes of Tammy Faye might have focused more sharply on its subject's story, but Jessica Chastain's starring performance makes it hard to look away.
  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Tara BradyIrish Times
    For all the impeccable production values ... the films generosity towards its controversial heroine feels like an unwarranted canonisation.
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    Sandra HallSydney Morning Herald
    The film is a powerful indictment of America’s evangelical right, but the one thing that Chastain can’t quite do is to make Tammy likeable.
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    Simran HansObserver (UK)
    The film smiles politely at Tammy Faye’s tacky aesthetic without ever fully embracing it, a bad-faith approach to its heroine.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Clarisse LoughreyIndependent (UK)
    The Eyes of Tammy Faye has done right by its subject, but only at the cost of shrinking down her world.
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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Kevin MaherTimes (UK)
    A riveting, unleashed and award-worthy performance from Jessica Chastain, playing a central character full of tensions and contradictions, is reason enough to see this film.
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    Danny LeighFinancial Times
    Usually biographies seek to peer behind the mask. Wish us luck, the movie winks.
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    Sarah VincentCambridge Day
    The tabloid fable also provides valuable lessons for Christian women today who face the moral crossroads of the hateful politics that often accompany far-right religion.
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    Zach PopeZach Pope Reviews
    An unrecognizable performance from Jessica Chastain She truly is the reason to see this movie!! The film is entertaining top to bottom… but I left wanting more. This will be an interesting discussion when it releases wide
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    Jillian ChilingerianOffscreen With Jillian
    Jessica Chastain is doing the best work of her career with a deserving SAG win to showcase. Unfortunately, the film offers no compelling argument for why audiences should watch this instead of the documentary. 


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  • , Fresh Tomatometer Score
    Emma-Jane BettsThe Digital Fix
    Chastain manages to capture the perfect balance of strength and vulnerability as she portrays Tammy fighting to achieve her dreams and smiling through the judgments of society who criticize her age, gender, and sex life.
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