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With the form of an awards-season hopeful but the soul of a bland melodrama, Hillbilly Elegy strands some very fine actors in the not-so-deep South.
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Suffice to say, unless you're a silly billy, you'll see through the pantomime. This fight ain't fair; it's been rigged. November 26, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Suffice to say, unless you're a silly billy, you'll see through the pantomime. This fight ain't fair; it's been rigged.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
The film is like a package of assorted chicken parts that can't be assembled back into something approximating the shape of an actual animal - there's way too much of some stuff, while certain essentials are missing entirely. November 24, 2020 | Full Review…
The film is like a package of assorted chicken parts that can't be assembled back into something approximating the shape of an actual animal - there's way too much of some stuff, while certain essentials are missing entirely.
Alison Willmore
Here's a rare example of a Netflix prestige film that neither runs too long nor overstays its welcome. November 24, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Here's a rare example of a Netflix prestige film that neither runs too long nor overstays its welcome.
James Berardinelli
These would theoretically be juicy roles for Adams and Close, but even with those stars letting loose, the conversations about broader cultural and economic challenges that the book triggered get obscured by what feels more like a Lifetime movie. November 24, 2020 | Full Review…
These would theoretically be juicy roles for Adams and Close, but even with those stars letting loose, the conversations about broader cultural and economic challenges that the book triggered get obscured by what feels more like a Lifetime movie.
Brian Lowry
Hillbilly Elegy isn't as terrible as the trailers make it look, but as an enterprise it's just all-around sad, a movie that courts sympathy for its characters yet ends up only as a requiem for itself. November 24, 2020 | Full Review…
Hillbilly Elegy isn't as terrible as the trailers make it look, but as an enterprise it's just all-around sad, a movie that courts sympathy for its characters yet ends up only as a requiem for itself.
Stephanie Zacharek
The best thing I can say about this movie is also the most damning, given Mamaw's proud indifference to anyone's good opinion of her. It's respectable. November 24, 2020 | Full Review…
The best thing I can say about this movie is also the most damning, given Mamaw's proud indifference to anyone's good opinion of her. It's respectable.
A.O. Scott
A generic, dull-witted drama of family dysfunction, addiction and shame that only pays lip service to the sociological import that made the book such a hotly discussed topic. November 28, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
A generic, dull-witted drama of family dysfunction, addiction and shame that only pays lip service to the sociological import that made the book such a hotly discussed topic.
Peter Canavese
For a film so hell-bent on portraying the importance of strong women, they sure do feel like a bunch of screw ups who make one poor decision after another November 27, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
For a film so hell-bent on portraying the importance of strong women, they sure do feel like a bunch of screw ups who make one poor decision after another
Frank Wilkins
A decent offering that purposefully doesn't delve into ideology and instead focuses on the tale of coming to grips with one's past (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, Drugs, etc. - also Available) November 27, 2020 | Rating: 5.5/10 | Full Review…
A decent offering that purposefully doesn't delve into ideology and instead focuses on the tale of coming to grips with one's past (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, Drugs, etc. - also Available)
Jim Judy
Ultimately, when you strip away the acting talent and the real people the story documents, viewers are left with a film that, sadly, sets itself apart for the wrong reasons entirely. November 27, 2020 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
Ultimately, when you strip away the acting talent and the real people the story documents, viewers are left with a film that, sadly, sets itself apart for the wrong reasons entirely.
Alex McPherson
The crowd-pleasing approach drains the material of its innate humanity, morphing the character's intimate struggles into melodramatic theater. November 27, 2020 | Full Review…
The crowd-pleasing approach drains the material of its innate humanity, morphing the character's intimate struggles into melodramatic theater.
Matt Conway
Director Ron Howard miraculously finds the humanity in emphatically irresponsible and emotionally stunted characters, thanks largely to a cast that shares his dogged determination to find flickers of warmth in the darkening embers. November 27, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Director Ron Howard miraculously finds the humanity in emphatically irresponsible and emotionally stunted characters, thanks largely to a cast that shares his dogged determination to find flickers of warmth in the darkening embers.
Bill Newcott
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