While the film was seemingly panned by critics, leading to a 25% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, Hillbilly Elegy boasts an 82% audience score on the site.

J.D. Vance’s memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy' and the film adaptation of the same name have surged in popularity following Trump’s announcement of Vance as his running mate Haley Bennett as Lindsay ...

Hillbilly Elegy is an abysmal film, a blight on each of its stars’ and filmmakers’ careers. This past week, it’s been climbing the ranks of Netflix’s most watched movies.

In 2020, Hillbilly Elegy was released on Netflix. The film adapts Vance's 2016 memoir of the same name and features ...

Changes in the film adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy aimed at cinematic structure did not save it from negative reviews.; The ...

Elegy is a film that houses the classic older man, younger girl scenario. In Elegy, that older man is David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) and the younger girl is ...

How JD Vance Went From ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ to the Ultimate Celebrity Apprentice — Thanks to Hollywood’s Help By Peter Debruge. Plus Icon. Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic. askdebruge. Latest ...

Early in “Hillbilly Elegy,” based on the memoir by J.D. Vance, Yale law student J.D. (Gabriel Basso, “The Kings of Summer”) is dining with partners at a white-shoe law firm, and when he ...

What the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ film adaptation does, and doesn’t, capture. Welcome to “The Tuesday,” a weekly newsletter about politics, language, culture, and, this week, film criticism. To ...

‘Hillbilly Elegy,” Ron Howard’s mystifying film adaptation of J.D. Vance’s best-selling 2016 memoir of escape from a hardscrabble childhood in Middletown, Ohio, features an early scene in ...

What is “Hillbilly Elegy” about? The film mostly follows Vance’s memoir. It begins with a younger Vance (played by Owen Asztalos) biking along a dirt path, while an older Vance narrates his ...