All the yelling isn’t “Hillbilly Elegy”’s fundamental problem, though; rather, it’s the fact that the movie is downright unkind to its characters. According to “Hillbilly Elegy,” the root cause of the character’s poverty, addiction, and violent behavior is a failure to take responsib...
Based on the book of the same name by J.D. Vance;Hillbilly Elegyis a new drama starring Amy Adams, Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso and Glenn Close. Directed by Ron Howard; it’s the story of a Yale law student (Brasso) who’s drawn back to his hometown where he grapples with family ...
Another award-winner found a more natural fit between form and content: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” (B / ), equal parts the party movie and protest movie of the festival. This documentary brought down the house on ...
It is an unusual amount of attention paid to one geographic part of the electorate. I have not read J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” on the grounds that the reviews of it make me mad so the book is likely to make me mad too. But I blame it anyway, because it has gotten a lo...
The Boys ascended to its highest mark ever in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for the week of its fourth season finale, and Netflix’s movie Hillbilly Elegy had a resurgence after Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance — whose memoir is the source material for the film — became the Republican nominee for...
the region, and grapple with why the kind of poor white people trump wouldn’t rub elbows with would vote for him. that merely allowed them to congratulate themselves and refuel their contempt. and it’s like 2020 all over again, when hillbilly elegy the movie debuted and was widely panned...
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While adapted from a book written by a character rooted in that community, Hillbilly Elegy often feels like an anthropological study constructed from second- or third-hand accounts. However, the movie’s most egregious fault might be how profoundly it misunderstands Terminator 2: Judgment Day. ...
Boo and I listened to the first part of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy on our way back from the lake. You change the early to mid 1990’s to the early 1980’s and change Ohio/Kentucky to North Dakota, and I’m seeing a lot of parallels here. ...
Ron Howard wrapped up filming last week on the “Hillbilly Elegy” movie. Millions more people will be introduced through that movie to your personal pilgrimage from your hardscrabble childhood to the present day. Is there a spiritual way to interpret the “Hillbilly Elegy” narrative?