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Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film
Despite the movie’s stacked cast, an oddly threadbare storyline and comedy that targets low-hanging fruit leaves the laughs few and far between Three stubborn old nuns and a wide-eyed young whippersnapper head off on a mission to save the farm – sorry, convent – in this earnestly made but emotionally lukewarm road movie. The ace up Holy Days’ sleeve is the casting, with each nun played by a legend of stage and screen: Judy Davis as Sister Agnes, Miriam Margolyes as Sister Luke and Jacki Weaver as Sister Mary Clare. It quickly becomes clear, however, that nobody is on their A-game. And the film itself is a frustrating mix of comedy and drama: not funny enough to solicit any real laughs, nor sufficiently dramatic to forge strong connections with the characters. These folk are a rather unexciting lot, despite a clear desire to present young Brian (Elijah Tamati) as the emotional glue holdin
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Despite the movie’s stacked cast, an oddly threadbare storyline and comedy that targets low-hanging fruit leaves the laughs few and far between Three stubborn old nuns and a wide-eyed young whippersnapper head off on a mission to save the farm – sorry, convent – in this earnestly made but emotionally lukewarm road movie. The ace up Holy Days’ sleeve is the casting, with each nun played by a legend of stage and screen: Judy Davis as Sister Agnes, Miriam Margolyes as Sister Luke and Jacki Weaver as Sister Mary Clare. It quickly becomes clear, however, that nobody is on their A-game. And the film itself is a frustrating mix of comedy and drama: not funny enough to solicit any real laughs, nor sufficiently dramatic to forge strong connections with the characters. These folk are a rather unexciting lot, despite a clear desire to present young Brian (Elijah Tamati) as the emotional glue holdin
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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Holy Days review – even Miriam Margolyes, Jacki Weaver and Judy Davis as nuns can’t save this film, Despite the movie’s stacked cast, an oddly threadbare storyline and comedy that targets low-hanging fruit leaves the laughs few and far between Three stubborn old nuns and a wide-eyed young whippersnapper head off on a mission to save the farm – sorry, convent – in this earnestly made but emotionally lukewarm road movie. The ace up Holy Days’ sleeve is the casting, with each nun played by a legend of stage and screen: Judy Davis as Sister Agnes, Miriam Margolyes as Sister Luke and Jacki Weaver as Sister Mary Clare. It quickly becomes clear, however, that nobody is on their A-game. And the film itself is a frustrating mix of comedy and drama: not funny enough to solicit any real laughs, nor sufficiently dramatic to forge strong connections with the characters. These folk are a rather unexciting lot, despite a clear desire to present young Brian (Elijah Tamati) as the emotional glue holdin
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