They don’t make it like them anymore… “The Holdovers” seems like it was excavated from the 70s, but in the best possible way. A short story, Hal Ashby style, about searching and finding, the confusion of adolescents and the desperation of adults.
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Paul Giamatti brilliantly plays a hated teacher at a boarding school who, because of his insistence on not giving preference to rich students, is given the responsibility of overseeing the Christmas holidays by the principal. Dominic Sessa (also great in his catcher-in-the-rye-ness!) is the only student who has to spend this party with him. The two bicker, but get to know each other’s injuries over the course of the Christmas holidays, so that “The Holdovers” really deserves it tearjerker-End can close. But before we get to that serious point, Alexander Payne’s film is a crisply written comedy that Aaron Sorkin couldn’t have crafted with more intellectual punchlines per minute.
I know it’s the beginning of January, but there won’t be many better films in 2024!
2024-01-25 00:20:38
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