The Holdovers

Name: The Holdovers
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 27, 2023
Duration: 133 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Andrew Garman, Brady Hepner, Carrie Preston, Colleen Clinton, Da'Vine Joy Randolph

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Focus Features | Release Date: October 27, 2023 | R

Starring: Andrew Garman, Brady Hepner, Carrie Preston, Colleen Clinton, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Gillian Vigman, Greg Chopoorian, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Jonathan von Mering, Michael Provost, Naheem Garcia, Oscar Wahlberg, Paul Giamatti, Tate Donovan

Summary: A curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school’s head cook, who has justA curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).… Expand

Director: Alexander Payne

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 133 min

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Empire Nick de Semlyen

Dec 8, 2023

Hunham’s hero Marcus Aurelius once wrote, “Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing.” Take his advice and see this film. Read full review

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Peter Debruge

Sep 3, 2023

The Holdovers is a film about class and race, grief and resentment, opportunity and entitlement. It’s that rare exception to the oft-heard complaint that “they don’t make ’em like they used to.” Read full review

David Sims

Oct 27, 2023

A few belly laughs abound, but it’s the deep care for its characters that makes The Holdovers really sing. Read full review

Jim Slotek

Oct 30, 2023

Add a bit of road movie misadventure, a la Payne’s Sideways, and you have a Christmas movie with spirit and wit, with a minimum of mawkish sentiment. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Nov 9, 2023

For all its cutting dialogue and its initially off-putting protagonist, The Holdovers is a cozy cardigan of a movie. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Sep 11, 2023

There’s an emotional restraint in both the performances and the film surrounding them, despite the time of the year, and when a light sprinkling of sugar does come in the last act it feels earned. Read full review

Justin Chang

Oct 26, 2023

The Holdovers is a flat, phony, painfully diagrammatic movie masquerading as a compassionate, humane one. Read full review

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