
Movies that feel likeThe Holdovers (2023)
If you loved The Holdovers, the closest films we have are Asteroid City (2023), Toni Erdmann (2016) and August: Osage County (2013). All three share The Holdovers' contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Drive My Car (2021).
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If The Holdovers hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief


Both land play and melancholy at once
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Both are built on the same subject: mental illness

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that
The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show


Melancholy comedy in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: alcoholism
The difference: Sits closer to history than The Holdovers does

One thread runs through both: grief
The difference: Takes it somewhere less witty than The Holdovers does

Common ground: melancholy

Drama built on stillness, twice over
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