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Ron Howard Says 'Hillbilly Elegy' Critics "Looking at Political Thematics" That Aren't Central to Story

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Despite its all-star pedigree, Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy, starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close, has been criticized online since it debuted on Netflix last week.

The movie, which had a limited theatrical release before hitting the streaming service, has a 27 percent freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with The Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper one of the few top critics who gave it a good review, writing in part that it is "a beautifully constructed, unforgiving, heart-tugging family epic." Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson, meanwhile, writes that the film is “distractingly Hollywoodified, a rich person’s idea of what it is like to be a poor person, a tone-deaf attempt to assuage a veryparticular kind of liberal guilt." And The Washington Post's.

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