Is It’s a Wonderful Life the ultimate Christmas movie? It’s the story of George Bailey, a man on the brink of suicide, who is saved by Clarence, an angel who shows him how the world would have been without him.

In the wintry setting of a prestigious boarding school in the early 1970s . . . ‘The Holdovers’ brings together the unlikely pair of rebellious student Angus and the loathed classics teacher Mr. Hunham for an unexpected Christmas stay . . .