The Holdovers
2023 · Comedy · Alexander Payne · 2h 13m
A disliked teacher at a New England boarding school is stuck minding the boy nobody collected for Christmas 1970, along with the cook who has just lost her son. Slow, snowy, and mostly the three of them.
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly intimate
- Clearly slow
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2020 · Drama
A Korean family move to a patch of Arkansas farmland in the 1980s so the father can grow vegetables to sell, and the grandmother comes over to help. Gentle and slow, seen largely through the youngest boy.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly intimate
- Clearly slow
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2021 · Drama
A radio reporter travelling the country interviewing children ends up looking after his nine-year-old nephew for a while. Black and white, quiet, and mostly the two of them talking.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly intimate
- Clearly slow
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2008 · Drama
A cellist whose orchestra folds moves back to his home town and takes a job he did not expect: preparing the dead for their families before burial. Slow and gentle, with a lot of quiet ceremony.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly intimate
- Clearly slow
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