The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: September 17, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 48 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
25
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithSep 16, 2021
The Eyes of Tammy Faye mostly plays out as a showcase for Jessica Chastain to bring as much emotional sturm und drang to the woman as she lurches between various states of turmoil. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeMark FeeneySep 15, 2021
It treats the Bakkers as something between grotesques and simpletons, which does rather limit the biopic angle. Satirizing televangelism is such low-hanging fruit it’s windfall. As for camp, it’s hard to avoid in a movie with Tammy Faye as its title character. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 16, 2021
The Bakkers were many things to many people: appalling, inspiring, laughable, sad. This movie succeeds in making them dull. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 12, 2021
The movie, with its numbing overload of pastels and prayer, is too tonally uncertain to yield any fun. It’s a depressing window into the worst excesses of faith racketeering that has little to offer in the way of commentary. Read full review
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