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‘The Holdovers’
The Holdovers is a deceptively simple film that manages to warm the heart without giving your inner cynic a toothache. Set at a prep school in 1970, the film follows a misanthropic Classics teacher, Mr. Hunham (Paul Giamatti), who finds himself stuck babysitting the students left there over the holidays, aka “the holdovers.” Over the course of two frigid weeks, Hunham, cafeteria manager Mary Lamb (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), and snarky junior Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa) bond over shared grief, trauma, regret, and hope. The film is already snapping up awards buzz for Giamatti and Randolph’s devastating performances, but it’s long-term legacy might be as an instant holiday classic. Full of wit and wisdom, The Holdovers is the rarest kind of film: a cinematic wonder you can happily rewatch every year at the holidays.
