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1/19/2024

The Holdovers (2023)

Giamatti is a history teacher at an all-boys boarding school who looks weird, smells bad and is unyielding when it comes to grades. Over the winter break, he's dealt the task of staying on-campus with the kids who, for various reasons, have nowhere to go. Eventually the students are whittled down to a single angry young man. The two men, along with the cafeteria worker handling the meals, become a little family over the couple of weeks they're together.

It not only looks authentically '70s, it feels like it too. The acting, the story, the whole vibe is perfect. Just a wonderful throwback that sucked me in.

B+

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