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  • La Chimera

    ★★★★

  • The Taste of Things

    ★★★½

  • Eephus

    ★★★★

  • All We Imagine as Light

    ★★★★

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  • La Chimera

    La Chimera

    ★★★★

    Unusual drama, by turns jaunty and elegiac, that follows a disgraced archaeologist who has a gift for locating Etruscan tombs, which he then robs with a merry band of local ne'er-do-wells. The lead actor gives off heavy The Long Goodbye vibes while he slumps, unshaven and filthy, through an adventure in a scruffy and benighted corner of Italy, where the local beach is dominated by a massive industrial plant expelling sludge into the sea. He's haunted by the ghost of…

  • The Taste of Things

    The Taste of Things

    ★★★½

    Really top notch food porn/ASMR, some of the quiet cooking scenes are just exquisite. Might have been better if there were no plot at all.

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  • Coup de Chance

    Coup de Chance

    ★★★

    Thoroughly meh, rather like a French Match point, except less sexy and less suspenseful. There's nothing overtly bad about it - though all late career Woody Allen films have cringely unsubtle dialogue - but the characters are boring stereotypes and there isn't much intrigue. Some nice views of ritzy Paris interiors, I guess.

  • Troll

    Troll

    ★★½

    Seems cobbled together from other, better movies — everything is familiar and predictable. I guess it's sort of fun, it is about a troll, but it doesn't really have that romping b-movie vibe.

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