But what about the scarlet macaw? Start the day smarter ... Far from the action-packed CGI movies with billion-dollar budgets, “Tuesday” pours its effects money into making Death so realistic.

Yes, a macaw. As the bird goes about his work ... it simply does not hold up. In her new movie, “Tuesday,” and on her “Wiser Than Me” podcast, Julia Louis-Dreyfus goes deep on a subject ...

Lola Petticrew and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in “Tuesday.” (A24 FILMS) To be sure, it is possible to imagine a movie in which a talking macaw is diverting, amusing, or even legitimately funny.

Those of us movie critics fortunate enough to ... Shrinking down, the macaw enjoys a badly needed bath in Tuesday’s bathroom sink. Tuesday plays one of her favorite songs, Ice Cube’s ...

Sometimes a movie does something that breaks its ... Because whatever you’re watching will no longer work for you. “Tuesday” broke me when a macaw, who is supposed to be Death, starts ...

In the case of Tuesday, the movie's inability to engage with its own ... attribute is his photorealistic resemblance to a real macaw, which results in a problem similar to Disney's live-action ...

Tuesday’s wheezing seems to summon the bird, who’s tormented by a din of ... there’s gotta be some serious reaper-cussions for that. What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: ...

But in “ Tuesday,” filmmaker Daina O. Pusic’s bold, fantastical and affecting debut, death looks like a lot like a macaw that’s seen better days. Covered in a thick layer of grime and oil ...

But when the bird prepares to take 15-year-old Tuesday’s life, Zora makes a deal with it to buy her daughter some time. The film draws inspiration from one of Oniunas-Pusic’s friends ...

Pusić plays these vignettes for horror-movie gore, even as the tenderness of the Tuesday/macaw connection gets drowned out by the mother’s increasingly frenzied attempts to keep Death from her ...