Julia Louis-Dreyfus saves Tuesday from being too weird or too maudlin.

| Oct 14, 2024

Tuesday is not a film about dying, but about the choices the living make when confronted with profound loss. It doesn't break your heart as much as help put it back together.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2024

Tuesday puts you through the emotional wringer, giving even the hardest heartstrings a firm tug.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2024

Tuesday is a magical realist allegory, dramatising our feelings about mortality – grief, denial, acceptance, despair – and interrogating what a good death might even mean.

| Aug 17, 2024

Muddled meditation on mortality, which is by turns sensitive and silly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2024

Dreyfus delivers a stunning portrait of a mother challenged to come good for her daughter in the last chapter of her life... but Oniunas-Pusic seems far too enamoured of her magic-realist metaphor than she should be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2024

There’s a grimly self-conscious “ain’t this just wacky?” overstatement to many of these scenes — a fatal over-reliance on vapid spectacle when any meaningful lower-key content would have sufficed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2024

Never thought I’d feel so much in a film with a parrot of death rapping to Ice Cube.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2024

There’s a real elegance and economy to Pusić’s direction, in the first half at least... Her tight grip on this fatalistic fairytale loosens a little as the film unfolds, but there’s no question that this is a remarkable and assured first feature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2024

The film is fantastical, but the ache at its heart is real, and stays with you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2024

Tuesday is inventive and the potential for something more profound is tantalisingly close but remains out of Pusić’s reach.

| Aug 12, 2024

A film bursting with ideas, few of them good, Tuesday puts an oddball spin on the terminal illness weepy and comes up with something even harder to pull off: the quirky terminal illness weepy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 9, 2024

As Zora learns to withstand and carry the unbearable burden of death, we might learn a thing or two from Pusić’s film too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2024

As it is, the movie can’t quite bear to make the macaw properly funny, or properly scary. So the action exists in a tonal muddle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2024

With originality, Tuesday delivers a thoughtful look at grief and the difficult process of accepting death -- ours and those we love. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Almost everything is dense, intense, and heartbreaking in Tuesday, but beyond the undoubted risk that the debutant director assumes, it generated more distance than empathy in me. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 7, 2024

It's strikingly well-made, with seamless digital effects and terrific locations. And the emotions are honest and moving.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 6, 2024

This is probably not the film you would expect it to be. But its unexpectedness is its biggest asset, a moving and very eccentric feathered fantasy about life, death and everything in-between.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2024

Should Oniunas-Pusić further develop her tone control, she’ll become a filmmaker to contend with. Tuesday is a sloppy and sincere mixed bag, heavily reliant on middling CGI.

| Original Score: 50/100 | Jul 26, 2024

Writer-director Daina O. Pusić's fiercely original, lyrical drama explores pain and loss and has unforgettable lead performances. Louis-Dreyfus proves that her considerable, award-winning talent isn't limited to comedic timing.

| Jul 17, 2024