Update Movie 2024 Info

2024 movie releases: new films out this year

A number of blockbuster new films and sequels will hit our screens in 2024

Twenty years after the success of Sideways, the comedy-drama about two men on a wine tour, The Holdovers reunites director Alexander Payne with actor Paul Giamatti, and the result is a "great big warm hug of a movie", said Kevin Maher in The Times. Giamatti plays Paul, a "misanthropic" classics teacher at a New England boys’ boarding school in the 1970s that serves as an Ivy League feeder. Paul is contemptuous of his pupils, whom he dismisses as "vulgar little philistines" and "foetid layabouts"; so he is annoyed when he is asked to babysit "the holdovers" – a handful of boys who are not going home for Christmas. Initially there are five, but four of them find somewhere to go, leaving just one, the recalcitrant Angus (Dominic Sessa). Also marooned at the school over the holidays is kitchen manager Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), whose son – a former scholarship student at the school – has just been killed in Vietnam. Payne has had a run of disappointing films of late, but this is terrific: "the softest and sweetest of his career so far".

Somewhat surprisingly, The Holdovers turns out to be "the ideal Christmas film, not only set at Christmas but featuring carols, a tree and the obligatory ice-skating scene", said Matthew Bond in The Mail on Sunday. So its release in January feels a bit odd. Still, we should welcome what is "a proper grown-up film" – one that calls to mind Goodbye, Mr. Chips and The History Boys. It brilliantly evokes its early 1970s setting, said Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph. It is also "impeccably acted" and often hilarious; but it’s the quieter shared moments between the characters that give the film its "lingering glow of wisdom and warmth". Out now.

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