Michael Showalter’s dramatized adaptation adds little beyond providing a showcase for Jessica Chastain & Andrew Garfield’s cartoonish performances. Impersonations in search of nuance, they fail to humanize these controversial figures, writes DavidCRooney1
, did an excellent job of capturing the singular peculiarity of a camp icon of the 1980s, raising questions as to what degree televangelical empress Tammy Faye Bakker was aware of the irregularities that led to her husband Jim’s conviction and imprisonment on fraud charges.
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