The Holdovers (2023)
Posted: November 10th, 2023, 4:52 pm
This is directed by Alexander Payne, one of my favorite directors. Paul Giamatti is a curmudgeon professor who stuck at the boarding school watching over a student who is not able to go home for Christmas vacation.
I rate it 7/10, a good film but not one of Payne's best. Not as great as Election (1999),About Schmidt (2002) or Sideways (2004).
It gets a bit sentimental, I don't have anything against sentimentality but not in a Payne film. His humor is usually edgy and dark. But this is worth seeing for the acting and the fact it is set in 1970 so the characters are not distracted by cell phones and social media.
I rate it 7/10, a good film but not one of Payne's best. Not as great as Election (1999),About Schmidt (2002) or Sideways (2004).
It gets a bit sentimental, I don't have anything against sentimentality but not in a Payne film. His humor is usually edgy and dark. But this is worth seeing for the acting and the fact it is set in 1970 so the characters are not distracted by cell phones and social media.