The Guardian's review of Holy Days finds that despite a stellar cast of veteran actors, the road movie fails to land either as comedy or drama. Writer-director Nat Boltt adapts Dame Joy Cowley's novel about three elderly nuns and a young boy travelling to save their convent, but the reviewer argues the characters, setting and jokes are all curiously flat, leaving audiences neither laughing nor emotionally invested.

Judy Davis, Miriam Margolyes and Jacki Weaver play Sisters Agnes, Luke and Mary Clare, joined by Elijah Tamati as Brian, a boy struggling with his father's new relationship after his mother's death. The trio set off to find a property deed after learning their convent's land is under threat, travelling through picturesque New Zealand scenery, though the reviewer criticises the threadbare plot, a mid-film twist that undercuts the story's stakes, and comedy relying on nuns smoking, swearing and passing gas rather than genuine wit.