The Holdovers (2023)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Holdovers is a delightful movie with emotional depths that isn’t seen often in recent cinema. Alexander Payne has crafted a heartfelt movie about a group of boys left at boarding school over Christmas break. Paul Giamatti stars as the curmudgeon tasked with watching them. The film explores the depths of joy, despair, and hilarity. It’s been called an “instant Christmas classic”, and Jim and A.Ron agree. Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to a bald move prestige movie podcast is a first run movie we want went tonight to see
0:08.1	the holdovers people are calling this an instant holiday classic
0:12.4	it's a period comedy drama directed by
0:16.8	Alexander Payne written by David Hemingson starring one Paul Giamotti.
0:22.0	Mm-hmm. Bald move favorite. starring one Paul Giamotti.
0:25.0	Bald move favorite, Divine Joy Randolph and Dominic Cessa.
0:28.0	Uh, like I said, people are calling this a modern Christmas classic. I saw some advanced reviews that were speaking very glowingly of this film
0:38.9	The parking lot at the movie tonight was full I can only assume of people that were seeing this movie
0:44.7	yeah it wasn't the boom boom boom boom happening in the theater next door from Taylor Swift
0:50.2	concert there there was some there were some exquisite moments of
0:54.3	unintentional comedy where some pretty heavy emotional material was being
0:59.8	buoyed by Taylor Swift next door just belting shit.
1:04.8	It was like an interesting soundtrack to the this
1:08.1	melancholy Christmas film, I gotta say.
1:11.1	No shade to the Swifties. I'm glad you guys were having fun over there, but it, I don't think this is the viewing experience that Alexander Payne had in mind.
1:22.0	No. When he, uh mind when he directed this thing.
1:24.8	I am in the tank for this movie.
1:27.7	I was expecting great things as soon as I saw the trailer.
1:32.0	This movie is damn near the perfect adult, young adult, even Christmas
1:39.3	film.
1:40.3	And I bet, like if you watch this, if you're 17 or 18 or 19 college bound you will feel a different way about this movie and you watch it like when you're in your mid-40s you're going to feel a different way about this film on my it's like this is a great
1:54.6	fucking Christmas film what do you think yeah no I the only word that comes to
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