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Film Review - The Holdovers

Film Review - The Holdovers

Paul Giamatti is outstanding in Alexander Payne's darkly comic, melancholy, but uplifting drama

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Jan 26, 2024
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Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers isn’t merely set in 1970 but pretends to be from 1970, in subject and form. Subject, because grown-up, mid-budget, mainstream Hollywood drama of this kind falls into they-don’t-make-them-like-that-anymore territory, and form, because the film has opening reel scratches, the 1970s Universal Studios logo, o…

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