THE HOLDOVERS

I had to watch THE HOLDOVERS twice to really understand my response to it and disentangle some of the heavy baggage I was bringing to the table (or holding over, so to speak).  The obstacles I faced were threefold: first, the period and the hyper-real, nostalgic feeling of the film being not just about the early 70s, but kinda OF the early 70s; second, …