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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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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
It is as if Howard does not fully understand the people whose story he is telling, so he feels compelled to force-feed the audience with the obvious points he is trying to make. November 20, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
It is as if Howard does not fully understand the people whose story he is telling, so he feels compelled to force-feed the audience with the obvious points he is trying to make.
Daniel Neman
The performances are wildly uneven and range from the naturalistic to the cartoonish. November 20, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The performances are wildly uneven and range from the naturalistic to the cartoonish.
Kevin Maher
The book's hard political edges have been planed away, leaving a highly polished piece of storytelling in the great Hollywood tradition of working-class soaps. November 19, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The book's hard political edges have been planed away, leaving a highly polished piece of storytelling in the great Hollywood tradition of working-class soaps.
Sandra Hall
The script is chock-full of the empty kind of "Live Laugh Love" platitudes that clog the aisles of Marshall's and stores targeting 'wine moms.' November 24, 2020 | Full Review…
The script is chock-full of the empty kind of "Live Laugh Love" platitudes that clog the aisles of Marshall's and stores targeting 'wine moms.'
Ryan Silberstein
Adams plays Vance's unstable mother, Beverly. It's less a character than a collection of outbursts, so I can't even say whether she's good. November 24, 2020 | Rating: 2 | Full Review…
Adams plays Vance's unstable mother, Beverly. It's less a character than a collection of outbursts, so I can't even say whether she's good.
Hope Madden
I have no idea how fans of the book will react to this adaptation, but as someone coming in cold, I didn't warm up nearly enough. November 24, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
I have no idea how fans of the book will react to this adaptation, but as someone coming in cold, I didn't warm up nearly enough.
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Hillbilly Elegy is ostensibly a true story told in the fakest, most insulting fashion possible. November 23, 2020 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…
Hillbilly Elegy is ostensibly a true story told in the fakest, most insulting fashion possible.
Andrew Parker
Two extraordinary actresses raise the bar in this story. [Full review in Spanish] November 23, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Two extraordinary actresses raise the bar in this story. [Full review in Spanish]
Carlos Marañón
...Hillbilly Elegy never rises above being awards bait at best. November 23, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
...Hillbilly Elegy never rises above being awards bait at best.
Danielle Solzman
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