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The Holdovers
2023 · Film · 133 min
Directed by Alexander Payne
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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You can only think of 2 notable films since 2022?
* American Fiction
* The Holdovers
* Oppenheimer
* Perfect Days(!)
* Nosferatu
* Conclave
* Challengers
* The Mastermind
I can rattle off more but those seem pretty hard to argue with. All of them are better than EEAAO.
I've seen many good films this decade too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There Is No Evil (شیطان وجود ندارد) 2020
Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー) 2021
The two Dune films
Alcarràs 2022
Suzume (すずめの戸締まり) 2022
Monster (怪物) 2023
Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet) 2023
The Holdovers 2023
Perfect Days 2023
The Substance 2024
Bugonia 2025 (even though it's a remake)
Holdovers was pretty great. Sorta like an 80’s school comedy but with the perspective of the adults included, making it a totally different type of movie.
Since the beginning of film editors have added tricks in post.
I would love for them to provide an option to view it with film simulation vs without.
One of my favorite movies of all time, The Holdovers, did film simulation extremely well. It's set in the '70s so it attempts to look like a movie of that era.
It looked great to me, but if you're an actual film nerd you're going to notice a lot of things aren't exactly accurate.
Maybe in the near future we'll see Netflix being able to process some post effects on the client. So if you're color blind, you get a mode for that. If you don't want fake grain you can turn it off.
Perhaps you can share some examples of the films you are referring as "mindless banter in between sex and explosions". I'm not sure that description really fits most of the films coming out recently. If you said, "Dumb comic book films", I would maybe agree with you, but there isn't typically any sex in those so I assume you are not referring to them.
Covid halted the production of a lot of movies, and changed how others were made. It also shut down theaters. So, "since covid", is really talking about before and after an era. Kind of like saying, "since 9/11", in terms of the impact on culture. A lot of creativity has moved from the movie theaters to streaming services and from films to more episodic content.
However, here is a short list of films worth seeing (imo) since covid (2019).
Zone of Interest (2023) The Holdovers (2023) Parasite (2019) Dune (2021) Dune Part Two (2024) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 1917 (2019) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) The Substance (2024) Palm Springs (2020) Oppenheimer (2023) The Lighthouse (2019) Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Barbarian (2022) Flow (2024)
I recently learned about this condition through a film called The Holdovers
And they were exceptionally rare.
But here are 2 films from different eras with somewhat similar themes:
1985: The Breakfast Club, 1h37m 2023: The Holdovers, 2h13m
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