As someone who was raised in a deeply Christian, conservative community, The Eyes of Tammy Faye does an incredible job of depicting just how chaotic, manipulative, and hypocritical American Christianity can be, while still finding the humanity and relatability in its characters.
Jessica Chastain delivers the best performance of her career thus far as the titular televangelist. Tammy Faye is wildly unpredictable and frustratingly naive, and yet Chastain elicits sympathy from the audience at every turn, crafting a genuinely complex…
