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The chattering classes got the 'Hillbilly Elegy' book wrong – and they're getting the movie wrong, too

  • Written by Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of Law, University of California, Davis

Film critics have had nary a good word to say about Netflix’s new movie “Hillbilly Elegy.”

Reviewers varyingly called it “Oscar-Season B.S.,” “woefully misguided,” “Yokel Hokum,” “laughably bad” and simply “awful.”

I admit to delight when I read professional critics...

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