Hillbilly Elegy movie review: Amy Adams, Glenn Close offer little consolation in Netflix's neoliberal morality play

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Amy Adams and Glenn Close are the kind of actors who can make an average movie watchable by their sheer presence.

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They don't have to be liaising with aliens or boiling bunnies to make an impact.

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It is aggravating that the Academy's chronic myopia has left the two actors with no gold figurines to show for their storied careers.

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They don't have to be liaising with aliens or boiling bunnies to make an impact.

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Call it: 13 reasons why the Oscars don't matter.

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Yet, despite their religious commitment of body and mind, they can't pull their new film Hillbilly Elegy out of the morass.

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In fact, if Ron Howard's blatant awards-season baiting won't earn them career Oscars, it may end up Norbiting some of their credibility.

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We've all grown up with Antoine Doinel and, through him, with Jean-Pierre Leaud, who was 14 when he made "The 400 Blows," and is now in his 30's in "Love on the Run."

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