Instead of being a love letter to films of old, The Holiday is almost an elegy for a world Meyers knows is about to die.
George Cukor's Holiday was neither the first nor last Hepburn and Grant pairing, but here it feels as if they're inventing a new type of relationship—one marked not only by fizzling flirtation or witty repartee, but also deeply infused with loss.
Hepburn and Grant tumble toward happy endings through chaos and adventure, misunderstandings and trickery, all with an effortless grace.
George Cukor's Holiday understands that money itself isn’t some darkly moral force in the world—the relentless pressure to produce is.
Not all movies are cinema; The Holiday is certainly not cinema—but it is upbeat and kind and romantic and Jude Law is just, like, extremely hot here.