6.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Holy Days (2026)
Holy Days (2026)
Overview
Holy Days is a 2026 comedy-drama directed by Nat Boltt in her feature debut. Set in 1970s New Zealand, it follows three elderly nuns—Miriam Margolyes, Judy Davis, and Jacki Weaver—on a road trip to save their convent from closure. A Canadian-New Zealand co-production blending Catholic and Māori elements.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
6.2
Overview
Holy Days is a 2026 comedy-drama directed by Nat Boltt in her feature debut. Set in 1970s New Zealand, it follows three elderly nuns—Miriam Margolyes, Judy Davis, and Jacki Weaver—on a road trip to save their convent from closure. A Canadian-New Zealand co-production blending Catholic and Māori elements.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's core conflict involves nuns and a boy fighting to save their convent from closure amid church bureaucracy and societal shifts, championing faith, tradition, and community resilience. This emphasis on upholding religious institutions against progressive changes drives the right-leaning bias.
Casting includes a Māori actor as the young protagonist, contributing visible diversity to an otherwise traditional ensemble. Themes blend indigenous spirituality with Catholic faith through a journey of grief and redemption, presented without sharp critique of established norms.
Secondary
The film depicts disrupted biological families resolving through forgiveness and acceptance of blended structures, while portraying the nuns' convent as a supportive chosen family grounded in religious faith and compassion. This framing leans toward endorsing traditional values like reconciliation and enduring bonds, with nuance in adapting to loss and change.
Catholicism drives the narrative through nuns on a redemptive road trip, emphasizing love, forgiveness, and faith despite their comedic human flaws. The story affirms the dignity of the church and its role in healing grief.
The film contains no depiction of LGBTQ+ characters or themes, centering instead on a comedic road trip involving nuns and a grieving child.
The film contains no portrayal of transsexual characters or themes. The story follows a young boy's grief and adventure with nuns, without any reference to transgender identity.
Three elderly nuns join a grieving boy on a comedic road trip across 1970s New Zealand to save their convent from closure. The story focuses on themes of faith, grief, and community, with no depictions of female characters in physical combat against males.
Holy Days adapts Joy Cowley's novel faithfully, retaining the male gender of protagonist Brian and the female genders of the three elderly nuns, with no instances of gender swaps for canonical characters.
Holy Days adapts Joy Cowley's novel featuring a boy whose race is unspecified in the source material. The film's portrayal of him as Māori does not constitute a race swap, as no canonical race exists for comparison. Other characters lack established racial baselines.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.8
6.5
Critic Ratings
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