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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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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
On the page, Vance's Mamaw at least had complexity, a bad parent herself born of others. Howard smooths and syrups until she is no more than a Pez dispenser of chain-smoking tough love. November 21, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
On the page, Vance's Mamaw at least had complexity, a bad parent herself born of others. Howard smooths and syrups until she is no more than a Pez dispenser of chain-smoking tough love.
Danny Leigh
Despite top talent on both sides of the camera, this adaptation manages to whittle down Vance's coming-of-age story into a shamelessly manipulative mess more likely to elicit anger than sympathy. November 25, 2020 | Full Review…
Despite top talent on both sides of the camera, this adaptation manages to whittle down Vance's coming-of-age story into a shamelessly manipulative mess more likely to elicit anger than sympathy.
Todd Jorgenson
If Vance's book was a page-turner with a message, Howard's film is just one damn thing after another: fights, screaming matches, drug sprees, shoplifting episodes, police interactions. It gets to be unintentionally comic at times. November 25, 2020 | Full Review…
If Vance's book was a page-turner with a message, Howard's film is just one damn thing after another: fights, screaming matches, drug sprees, shoplifting episodes, police interactions. It gets to be unintentionally comic at times.
Kyle Smith
The sum of the parts never quite add up. This is a film that is competently made and has some interesting work from Close, but it's a bit inconsistent and never quite sure what it wants to say. November 25, 2020 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The sum of the parts never quite add up. This is a film that is competently made and has some interesting work from Close, but it's a bit inconsistent and never quite sure what it wants to say.
Micheal Compton
While Ron Howard should certainly be ashamed of the finished product, the core rot at the heart of this project traces all the way to the source material. November 25, 2020 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…
While Ron Howard should certainly be ashamed of the finished product, the core rot at the heart of this project traces all the way to the source material.
Dominic Griffin
As a director, Ron Howard is more a storyteller than stylist, but at his best he can bring out the essential humanity of his characters, letting viewers into their lives with compassion and understanding. That's what he does with Hillbilly Elegy. November 25, 2020 | Full Review…
As a director, Ron Howard is more a storyteller than stylist, but at his best he can bring out the essential humanity of his characters, letting viewers into their lives with compassion and understanding. That's what he does with Hillbilly Elegy.
Daniel M. Kimmel
A mediocre melodrama full of poverty porn, one that moves slowly and doesn't deliver anything memorable November 25, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A mediocre melodrama full of poverty porn, one that moves slowly and doesn't deliver anything memorable
Stephen Silver
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