The Holdovers (2023)
[9] One of the surest ways a film can win my heart is by letting me into the lives of characters aching for healing who achieve genuine, emotional human connection. It's why I love films like Pump Up the Volume,…
Sideways (2004)
[8] Writer/director Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt) takes us on a trip through California wine country with two middle-aged college buddies in Sideways, based on a novel by Rex Pickett. Paul Giamatti plays a divorced junior high school teacher suffering…
About Schmidt (2002)
[8] Jack Nicholson stars as Warren Schmidt, a recent retiree who tries to reconnect with his daughter after the sudden death of his wife. He embarks on an RV trip to stop the daughter's wedding to an unworthy used car…
Downsizing (2017)
[7] Matt Damon stars in writer/director Alexander Payne's (Election, Nebraska) film about a man who undergoes a miraculous new "shrinking" process so that he can live in a miniature utopia where his money is worth more... a lot more. Unfortunately, the…
Nebraska (2013)
[6] Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt) directs from a script by Bob Nelson this father/son road trip story about a senile old man who mistakenly thinks he's won a Publisher's Sweepstakes and insists on getting to Lincoln, Nebraska, to pick…