In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2023, Bilge Ebiri, Esther Zuckerman, and Mark Harris—about the year in cinema. Read the first entry here. Dear Holdovers, What a pleasure to be stranded with all of you this holiday season! Bilge and Esther, I share your love for Alexander Payne’s movie, and I wonder if what people find “cozy” about The Holdovers is that it takes care of its audience in a way that many veteran moviegoers feel they can no longer take for granted. It’s not that Payne lulls us into complacency; it’s that...