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There are interesting, and important, themes at play in Hillbilly Elegy, about the difficulties of escaping cycles of violence and how destitution itself is a disease but the narrative bounces back and forth between J.D.'s past and present a bit too loosely, to the point where you start ...
Based on theJ.D. Vancebest-selling memoir,Hillbilly Elegyis, at its essence, the simple story of a man trying to find himself amongst the clutter and distraction of family dysfunction. But on an even broader – and more important – level, it attempts to portray a family’s difficult jour...
Full of repetitive flashbacks and constant yelling, Hillbilly Elegy strives to be the next great domestic drama, but falls short in several ways.
Hillbilly Elegy Review Law student J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso) is at a prospective law firm dinner wearing his best suit and trying to tell the butter knife from the fish knife when his phone rings: it’s his sister (Haley Bennett), who tells him through a cracking voice that “she’s...
Such is the case with Ron Howard’s latest, an adaptation of J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, a 2016 publication which shared his family’s dysfunction born from the combination of poverty and the opioid crisis across a particular period in the Appalachian community and their...
of her screentime was spent screaming to the camera, almost as if she believes the stereotype that GOOD ACTING IS ONLY ABOUT SHOUTING is true. She yells, she flails herself around, and it’s frankly embarrassing to watch. She’s a good actress, if not a great one, butHillbilly Elegyis...
Ron Howard directs Glenn Close and Amy Adams, as a mother and daughter with a tumultuous relationship, in 'Hillbilly Elegy,' the film adaptation of J.
Hillbilly Elegy feels like a bland feel-good story rather than one part of a longer tragedy with no clear end.