Lost Holiday

Just your average middle of the road indie flick with plot holes and a below average group of actors. did enough to keep me interested and that is all

very comparable to my high school career. did just enough to graduate

c-

5.4

Poorly constructed. Poorly acted. Poorly written. Filled with BS identity politics. The direction is none existent. AND the screen quality looks like this was made on Super8 and blown up for the big screen.

In all it's amateur night. And boring as all hell.

It was a solid movie from someone with no budget and film school actors. That's it. I could go on (especially about the comparisons to Chandler and the Thin Man) but really, what's the point?

It's worth a watch if you just really love movies (especially way off beat ones) and are really bored.

It's funny, yet poignant. The acting, particularly the male and female leads, is terrific. The writing is taut and clever.

LOST HOLIDAY is a French New Wave-style screwball detective story...imagine BAND OF OUTSIDERS meets THE THIN MAN...or maybe more on the nose: MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY for Millennials. (Sorry, that's probably too trite, I know.)

Kate Lyn Sheil gives yet another masterful performance as a completely original female character we've never seen on screen before (Nicole Holofcener should write something for KLS immediately). And she's match perfectly with the churlish Thomas Matthews...in a truly platonic, trope-defying relationship that lives in the chemistry of actual BFFs...again, something that wouldn't even occur to a lesser filmmaker.

The rest of the cast is a who's who of "that guys"...faces you might not expect to see in a low budget affair like LOST HOLIDAY (or in a movie at all: David Corn?!). Each bringing a fresh energy to the proceedings: William Jackson Harper as the love lost, Allie Gallerani as his impossibly perfect fiance, Ismenia Mendes as the entitled victim of circumstance...I really can't say enough for the performances co-directors Thomas and Michael Matthews get out of these folks.

Look, LOST HOLIDAY may not be your thing. There is certainly an anarchist spirit to the film-at least in the way the brothers Matthews insist on both honoring and subverting the genre...sometimes within the same scene-that can make an audience member feel like maybe they aren't in on the joke. But still...by doggedly holding on to this fresh and unusual vision, this isn't a film you won't want to miss.