2. 17 December, The Holdovers (2023)

A Christmas movie a genial, gentle, redemptive drama set in 1970, with funny, rueful dialogue .Paul Giamatti plays Mr Hunham, a cantankerous classics master at a New England boys’ boarding school to look after the “holdovers”, the pupils who can’t get home for the Christmas holidays. More importantly still, the eerily empty school is dominated by Miss Lamb, the school’s cook and a woman of colour resoundingly played by Da’Vine Joy Randolph (a Golden Globe winner for her performance).