The Holdovers (2023)

A wonderful film, wonderful acting. I will never have enough of such paintings, which remind me from time to time of the values of life and the magic of simple human relationships. Sincerity and sincerity are always the key to success. And this movie definitely had a success personally in my heart (and broke it a little)

Chuck Rhodes as a history teacher, fine

It reminds me of the Dead Poets Society
10 out of 10

The film will definitely replenish my shelf of favorites and will be somewhere along with the "Society of Dead Poets", "Choristers" and "Green Book", only now with an attribution to watch before the winter holidays. And even if it is not full of love stories with an indispensable marriage at the end, but who said that there is no happy ending in it?!)

What an incredibly sensual movie!

You spend the whole movie staring at Paul Giamatti's eyes and waiting for him to put on a rhinoceros costume and go fight Spider-Man. In general, the film is very emotional. About loneliness, which is different for everyone. For viewing in winter under a warm blanket, just right! I recommend.

It's a pity that I didn't find this movie before the New Year. Nevertheless, after two consecutive views and hundreds of screenshots, the ones left behind became mandatory for the holidays, in addition to the ballet "The Nutcracker" and the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

The light version of the Breakfast Club

Sometimes it happens, I put it in bookmarks in December just because of the high score, so I wouldn't have paid attention. And in January, I got my hands on it and I'm very glad that I didn't miss such a gorgeous almost Christmas movie😄

It's a great movie, but maybe not for everyone. It's too slow, too predictable, and generally old-fashioned. But as for me, it was done on purpose. Even the opening credits and the screensaver are made in the spirit of the times in question. Yes, it's old-fashioned, from the days when such plots were still new.

And it went to me. He's one of those anti—Christmas movies that are fun to watch on holidays. It seems that they talk about topics that are completely antagonistic to Christmas, but at the same time they manage to inspire a festive spirit. I did it that way. In short, I am satisfied.

This movie is a future Christmas classic

wonderful acting, very sentimental and about eternal values. And about the power of the human spirit! Paul Giamatti is beautiful.

A very atmospheric and enjoyable film

a wonderful and heartfelt movie. definitely in the piggy bank of your favorites
and this is the debut role of Dominic Sess, the actor who plays Angus Tully. good luck to him in the future. Yes, the whole cast is good!

It's a good movie, I liked it. It's a bit long, but that's the beauty of it. It reminds me of the dead poets society and the breakfast club at the same time, yes.
To the collection, definitely.

definitely a good movie!

I haven't watched such a heartfelt movie for a long time.
The story is about ordinary people climbing a ladder from a chicken coop. with light sadness (or not always light)
, sometimes you need to watch just such stories.

I read that the film was shot without special decorations and pavilions. Even the snow was real!
I think it's very cool, especially nowadays.

Well, this is a good movie!
The picture is stylistically perfect for the mood
But from a sudden Dutch angle, he laughed.
Well, as a zoomil operator, it also looks good in the entourage of the film!

A great Christmas movie and a great Giamatti game! I really want him to get an Oscar, but this year, apparently, it's not fate :(

He smiled from some scenes like a child.
Well, "penis cancer in human form" now my new insult

A cute campus dramedy with several atypical moves for modern American cinema.

A good movie. A cozy, unhurried melodrama. Authentic - it feels like you're really watching a movie from the seventies. And there is an additional sweetness in this. I would call some delay a disadvantage, especially at the beginning.

What do we have here? Easter egg from the director. A young Dustin Hoffman and a Little Big Man on the cinema screen. According to Wikipedia, the release date is December 23, 1970. That is, the friends celebrated Christmas and came to the premiere. The mystery of the era in the film is solved - it's the eve of 1971, President Nixon, the Vietnam War and Jim Beam for $2

I liked the movie. This is probably my favorite in the Oscar race.
The only annoying thing is teenage behavior like Tully's. no, it is clear that we are all different (character, temperament, heredity, got up on the wrong foot, etc.), but the moment in the gym caused a storm of indignation. Damn, what kind of thought drives you when you break the ban? there is zero sense, the consequences are obvious. why? my personal merit is not that I have experienced youth maximalism to a lesser extent, the mechanism of the reason for behaving this way is just interesting))

A cozy kind movie in the style of cinema of the late 80s-early 90s, for me it's some kind of pleasant cocktail from the breakfast club, Dead Poets Society, Stepmothers with Julia Roberts, with a pinch#34;The Catcher in the Rye" and a little in style "1+1" or the Green Book - when two completely opposite characters gradually penetrate into each other's lives and become imbued with common emotions..
It's great to watch on a winter evening in pleasant company with a cup of cocoa and cookies.

My favorite Movie of all the Oscar winners (except Oppenheimer)
So kind and inspiring, there are very few of them now

A wonderful movie! So warm, cozy, nostalgic. It's hard to believe that it's modern, the shooting style, color correction, the appearance of the actors - everything is very in the spirit of the time in which the story takes place.
Of the Oscar films, this is my favorite. Paul Giamatti is wonderful, such an Uncle Walrus. I would have given him an Oscar for the lead role. I am glad to receive the Oscar for the supporting actress, I think it is absolutely deserved. You will want to review the film. It resembles the Dead Poets Society, the Breakfast Club, and even Home Alone with its Christmas atmosphere.

it's snowing outside and I decided to watch a movie that I didn't have time to watch in winter. It's a pity that I didn't look earlier. The most interesting film, I regret that I did not see it earlier

The seventies seem to be the ideal time for worldview and immersion in retro cinema style, slightly darkened contrasts from the camera, light music, average lifestyle and lack of flashiness and neatness. Oh, it's not that it's nice to spend the new year, any evening it will brighten you up, even though in my movie it's not about fun, but about knowing the darkness of the soul, a psychological session on the couch.

The abandoned ones not only ask the question of my being, but also argue with the most fateful path to life with the help of fatalism, the teacher, who is not satisfied with his life, interprets it as his Bible "To himself" — a collection of aphoristic thoughts of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in twelve "books". Where many speculations come down to the thought - fate should be accepted without grumbling, each lot is good in its own way.

All this pipelining does not leave a chance to hear each other, when the main thing is to take a test and feed assessments, immediately the romance of a beautiful object breaks on the rocks of routine. Children, as if by chance, remain unheard, and in the paradigm of life, the rule is fixed for them, show your teeth, otherwise they will get ahead of you. But being born with a white bone, of course, simplifies your social life, you do not need to worry about clothes or your father's nickels, but at the same time you are still a subtle person who will find problems on the fifth point, and when it is scary to challenge relatives, there is a convenient hypocrite teacher.

A heartfelt film

I did not expect that I would be so "stuck" by this movie. Oh, what is it, another variation of the Dead Poets Society? Some kind of underhand boredom?", - with such thoughts, scratching my belly, I sat down to watch and after ten minutes I realized how wrong I was in my petty-bourgeois bias)) The movie is actually magical - by all accounts it was supposed to be boring, sluggish, contemplative, but it turned out to be soulful, immersive and, I'm not afraid of this word, artless. And that's a plus! The main acting trio also works wonders on the screen. I really ADMIRED Giamatti, the young talent of Sess (I'm looking forward to a new Illusion of Deception with him), and the charming Joy Randolph. I will not speculate which of them deserved the Oscar more, for me the whole trio was a complete delight, and when the film focused on them, I was only glad of it.

When I watched "Abandoned" in 2023, I immediately determined for myself that I would return to these characters during the New Year holidays. This is the kind of movie that warms up on winter evenings and leaves faith in kindness. Alexander Payne has created something amazing: a calm, kind movie that can truly heal. While many films, even the most vivid ones, inevitably fade with time, "Abandoned" remains with me as something alive and real, which I want to return to for warmth.

It's a sad Christmas movie, even if it's heartfelt.

But I didn't like it, it was depressing and nothing special, imho.

As one of the commentators wrote, this is a future Christmas classic!
What is the movie about?
"On Christmas Eve, the students of the prestigious boys' academy leave for the holidays. There are only five students left in school who, for one reason or another, were not picked up by their parents. Mr. Hanham remains in charge of them, a grumpy and uncompromising misanthrope who plans to force the wards to study for two weeks. Naturally, everything will go differently. "

The film is very emotional, it drags on, but that's the point of the film, it drags on pleasantly and you sort of delve into the story and experience everything that the main characters went through on Christmas Eve. This is a kind and sometimes funny, but at the same time very tragic movie about lonely people. I really liked the 70s styling. In short, the film is a pleasure to watch and enjoy what is happening, definitely 10 out of 10, an accurate hit.

This film leaves a very warm feeling. I started watching it without any special expectations, but very quickly realized that the film completely absorbed me and dragged me into this gloomy, albeit Christmas action. And then the hopelessness and gloom slowly began to dissipate and it became warm and pleasant. Such different people, such complicated destinies, and all this gradually unfolds before the viewer, slowly and inexorably. And with each scene, you get more and more into each character.
I'll definitely review it sometime.

a film that evokes a sense of comfort, what a pleasant atmosphere prevails in this story
. First, you stay with unfamiliar and unloved people for Christmas, thinking what you deserve it for and why you can't spend your weekend in peace. and then you get into it. you feel. and it turns out that these moments were actually the best, kindest and so homely, and the people around them became supports and friends
in general, in order to feel the value of life, you must watch)

I really liked it. Such a smart and sad Christmas movie. And they all play as they live.

The Holdovers gave me the same feeling as I had after watching Dead Poets Society too! Made me smile, linger in small kindnesses and believe in the beauty of imperfect people finding each other. Film remind us that even ordinary days can matter deeply

It's not a movie
, it's magic. 💔

Now I want to review it during the New Year holidays.

"She's not here, there's no glove.
"That bastard left one glove on purpose so that it would always remind you of the loss."