Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy, Ron Howard’s movie version of 2016’s heralded cultural anthropology epic Hilbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family In Crisis, is a sum-of-its-parts picture and reductive adaptation which, often in spite of itself, has strong enough performances to ultimately be compelling.  And that’s…

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Let Him Go

Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are sensational in the fine Western thriller Let Him Go, in which they play a retired, small-town Montana cop and headstrong wife who inadvertently run afoul of a nefarious crime family, led by a hardboiled Lesley Manville. As directed…

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