Vance’s memoir, of the same name, published in 2016. To be totally honest, I … With a 25% rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics yet an 83% rating from viewers, the 2020 film “Hillbilly Elegy” is shaping up to be as controversial as J.D. Yet, the most interesting thing is happening. Hillbilly Elegy is the new Cats, ... With an anemic 26 percent rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Hillbilly Elegy ranks as the worst reviewed of any of the 2021 Academy Award nominees. It currently holds a 25% rating on reviews aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Its Rotten Tomatoes score currently stands at 25% approval — not exactly the score desired of a potential Oscar hopeful. Jumping between 1997 and 2011, often incoherently, "Hillbilly Elegy" is another entry in a sub-genre that could be labeled "Getting Out"—the story of a sensitive, intelligent, often creative person who grew up in deprivation and disharmony, amid generations doomed to repeat destructive cycles of behavior and never leave the place that formed them. The website's critics consensus reads, "With the form of an awards-season hopeful but the soul of a bland melodrama, Hillbilly Elegy … An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future. On Rotten Tomatoes, viewers score Hillbilly Elegy 82 percent fresh with over 750 reviews. The most noteworthy thing about “Hillbilly Elegy” is, without a doubt, how insanely negative the critical reaction to it has been. The film follows J.D. Hillbilly Elegy – a drama about the white, ... the very thing that caused the guilt in the first place”. Based on Rotten Tomatoes scores, you would have to go back almost 30 years to find an Oscar-nominated film with worse reviews than Hillbilly Elegy: the … The film’s critic score on Rotten Tomatoes was 27, while its audience score was 82. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 26% of 245 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.60/10. Even right-wing National Review opined that Elegy "shows shallow — fake — empathy with the Appalachian background that begins Vance's humble brag." "I’m not going to watch it, but I’m genuinely psyched about how apparently bad Hillbilly Elegy is." Directed by Ron Howard. With Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett. Reviews currently give “Hillbilly Elegy” a 20% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 41 on Metacritic. ... and it currently holds a 26 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch.