The confidence in director Alexander Payne’s work is instantly evident at the onset of his film. That confidence is present in movies like “The Descendants,” “Nebraska” and “Sideways” where he first collaborated with Paul Giamatti. His latest, “The Holdovers,” might be his most confident work and one of Giamatti’s best performances. Not only does “The […]
The new film from auteur Alexander Payne (Nebraska, The Descendants) is unlike anything he’s done before. It’s a film that first and foremost sells itself as a comedy, to be fair, most Payne films do, yet turns out to be something different entirely. It’s science fiction, but presented in mostly realistic terms. There hasn’t been
This might be the first time Alexander Payne didn’t write the screenplay for a film he directed, but the Oscar winner’s handprint is still everywhere. Payne (Sideways, The Descendants) has become one of the most respected auteurs in the business with his ability to portray the most realistic type of characters on the screen. Bittersweet