Movies: Holiday season films with "Napoleon," "Maestro," and "The Holdovers"

By Tom Hall,

Teria Rogers, Malarie Pinkard-Pierre, Sam Bermas-Dawes

Published December 7, 2023 at 12:05 PM EST

THE HOLDOVERS, starring Paul Giamatti and directed by Alexander Payne, is a Christmas story of three lonesome people at a New England boarding school over a snowy holiday break in 1970.

Today is Midday at the Movies, our monthly focus on new films and film-industry trends, with our regular movie aficionados, Jed Dietz, founding director of the Maryland Film Festival , and Ann Hornaday, film critic and author.

We discuss Ridley Scott's new historic epic, Napoleon, as well as a couple topical movies for the holiday season.