(spoilers) Director Alexander Payne and his cohort Paul Giamatti are back in a beautiful period piece, 'The Holdovers" written by keenly by David Hemingson. This movie succeeds on several levels, the cast and direction is strong, and they did a marvelous job recreating the early 70s backdrop. The characters are interesting and varied. And as usual with good movies, there's really no weak performances from the leads to the smaller roles. The movie measures well to similar predecessor genre movies like "Dead Poets Society" and "Heaven Help Us" I espeically liked the later frank distilled conversation with Giamatti and and young newcomer Dominic Sessa as Pual and Angus, both struggling. Sessas has taken whole advantage of his opportunity. The Holdovers is rightfully up for a Oscar nod. 8/10.
Review of The Holdovers
