Hillbilly Elegy

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, 25% Rotten Tomatometer Score
  • 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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    Charles BramescoInside Hook
    Why did Amy Adams and Glenn Close choose to do such a bad movie?
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    Alana AntonBitch Media
    Hillbilly Elegy is objectively terrible.
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    Wenlei MaNews.com.au
    Adams and Close deserved better than this relentlessly gloomy, often trite, movie. We all did.
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    Sara StewartBook & Film Globe
    There's only a vague message about bootstraps and personal responsibility, and a whole lot of bad wigs.
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    Jordan HoffmanTV Guide
    Hillbilly Elegy and its Oscar dreams are all sizzle, no steak.
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    David SimsThe Atlantic
    Hillbilly Elegy is an Oscar-friendly narrative of personal triumph in the face of great hardship, a movie designed to end with an uplifting epigraph; it is also one of the worst movies of the year.
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    Amy SmithInSession Film
    I do not encourage anyone to check this film out except for the purposes that it may get some acting nominations at the Oscars. Even with the strong performances, Adams and Close have given better performances than this, and they better not win for this.
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    Manuel São BentoMSB Reviews
    Hillbilly Elegy suffers from its formulaic narrative stuck in a tiresome loop of overdramatic scenes that escalated incomprehensibly way too fast.
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    Pablo VázquezEspinof
    Gathers all the elements of Great North American Cinema: coming of age, intergenerational conflict, downfall, redemption, pain, glory, failure, and triumph; in short, the lights and shadows of the American dream. [Full review in Spanish]
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    M.N. MillerReady Steady Cut
    Memoirs tend to show an unfiltered view of others. The author, in turn, will show a filtered view of themselves.
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