The Holdovers

MOVIE #1,341 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 02.01.24 I am extremely pleased to announce that Alexander Payne is back, folks. The Holdovers is his best felt in years and easily a Top 3 effort (not to mention a lowkey future Christmas movie classic). Only 10/10 Stone Cold Classics Sideways and Nebraska are better in my book. This hits all the excellent notes one would expect from a great Payne film and has the added bonus of pure VIBES. You live and breathe the snowy New England setting (lovingly shot on film) and that alone is worth a lot. But the story and performances are every bit the equal. I know this isn’t a very compelling or well-written review. It's an A.I.-ass review, honestly. I just liked the movie a ton and it made me feel good. Sometimes there's no need to belabor the point and you know when you see it.

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The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson in his feature writing debut. Set in 1970, it stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on Christmas break. Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa (in his film debut) respectively play a cafeteria administrator and one of the students who stays on campus. It was released on October 27, 2023.