What we said: “Chastain gives a hilarious turn as Tammy Faye: like Tammy Wynette with a bit of Nancy Reagan and Eva Perón.” Read the full review. Photograph: Searchlight Pictures/Allstar The Eyes of Tammy Fayeīiopic of Tammy Faye Bakker, wife of televangelist Jim Bakker and latter-day supporter of the US’s LGBT community Jessica Chastain won the best actress Oscar for her makeup-caked performance in the title role. ‘Like Tammy Wynette with a bit of Nancy Reagan and Eva Perón’ … Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. What we said: “A beautiful and mysterious movie, slow cinema that decelerates your heartbeat.” Read the full review. Tilda Swinton joins forces with Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul for an English-language, Colombia-set fable about a woman who can hear sounds that others don’t appear to.
What we said: “The most eerie moments come when we look directly into the cow’s eyes, as she is perhaps directly looking into ours – or at any rate, the camera lens – and mooing, repeatedly, intently or even meaningfully.” Read the full review. Cowĭocumentary from American Honey director Andrea Arnold, following without comment the lives of farm cows from birth to slaughter. What we said: “A spectacular noir melodrama boasting gruesomely enjoyable performances and freaky twists.” Read the full review. Glossily mounted film noir, directed by Guillermo del Toro, with Bradley Cooper as the carny who becomes a high society mind-reader/grifter, and Cate Blanchett as a psychologist who aims to expose him. What we said: “A wonderfully acted, if claustrophobic, ordeal of emotional pain.” Read the full review. Jason Isaacs and Ann Dowd are among the cast of a drama about the “healing” meeting between the parents of a high-school shooting victim, and the parents of the perpetrator. Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy Mass ‘Wonderfully acted’ … Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton in Mass.