Tuesday

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and my favorite vegan actor Lola Petticrew star in this A24 film about a girl with a terminal disease gets a visit from death in the form of a parrot. She’s able to convince the parrot to give her more time for her to talk to her mother first. Interesting take on the death spirits. The story is very unique but super trippy 🍿🍿🍿🍿/5 on Max

Tuesday (2023) is labeled as a sci-fi film, but honestly, I’m not even sure what it was trying to be. The movie left me confused more than anything. At its core, it’s about a mother and daughter dealing with the daughter’s impending death—but they’re also being followed and taunted by Death itself, which takes the form of… a giant talking macaw? Yes, you read that right. Death is a bird. But not just any bird—this macaw can shrink down tiny or grow massive, and it speaks in a deep, demonic voice that feels more horror movie than heartfelt sci-fi. It’s strange, unsettling, and not in a good way. Julia Louis-Dreyfus actually gives a solid performance. She does the best she can with the material she’s given and adds emotional weight where she can. But even she couldn’t save this movie from its own weirdness. There are scenes where the bird gets high with the dying daughter, and at that point, the film completely loses its footing. It tries to be artsy, symbolic, and profound, but it ends up just feeling random and boring. In the end, Tuesday is weird, confusing, and too out-there for its own good. I wouldn’t recommend it. There’s just not enough substance beneath all the strangeness to make it worth the watch.

This movie was actually fantastic, great story line and I love how death is portrayed as a macaw, a majestic being if you will. This movie is def one of my favorites. Very bittersweet towards the end.

i actually quite liked this; it's an interesting way to depict death/losing a child/grieving/etc. & the parrot is cool. i had seen others praise Julia's performance & I gotta say I agree - she got me a bit there at the end.

So thoughtful & deeply moving. JLD is a genius.

!!! Spoilers!!! I loved the depiction of death as a bird and as a being that struggles with all the pain it is surrounded by. I think the movie could've been so much better if the Mom wasn't such an unlikable character, the lengths she went through to make sure her daughter wouldn't die, her emotional outbursts, screaming at her daughter who is suffering because she can't let go... Especially at the end, it made me angry that death came to see her again and console her, they had almost no reaction to her literally eating them (which btw that was crazy af like why would you do that) But the interaction between Tuesday and death is what really safed this movie. Overall I think it's worth a watch!

This movie swings between wannabe serious drama and wannabe funny, but doesn't really succeed at either. Unlike many I think that the casting of Julia Louis-Dreyfuss was a serious mistake. She's got comedy in her bones and all of her facial expressions are comedic in nature by virtue of her training and multiple successes as a comic actor. Thus even at those times when we're supposed to be taking her and her emotions seriously, I found it impossible because it seems as if she herself was incapable of taking the drama seriously enough...as if at any moment she'll give you an elbow and a wink and say "get the joke?" On the one hand there's a certain amount of obvious going for the humor, and a moment later it flip flops to going for the pathos. Ultimately unrewarding.

This film it’s truly a trip, so interesting and hurtful at a time. The creepy death bird, and the mother deeply sunk in the denial of something that is no way to stop. We must be in peace with the FACT the we all are going to die.”, sooner the better. Death is necessary.

The inevitability of death, and its acceptance, in a fresh perspective, in the sense that the herald of death is presented in the form of a parakeet. The cross between drama and comedy has enough to stimulate curiosity and, if it doesn't provoke a tear or two, linger long enough in the viewer's subconscious.

Do you like The Twilight Zone? Then this film is for you. It has the same weird and surreal vibe, and things just keep getting weirder. I think many people here are missing the point of this wonderful movie. Relax, it's just a movie from another dimension.