Watch List Weekly Recap 2/9/24
A perfect "Perfect Days" and a delicious "The Taste of Things," among other viewing pleasures.
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What to Watch: Whim Vendors
Two of 2023’s finest movies — #2 and #13 on my year-end Top 20 — open in New York and L.A. today and roll out to other cities and theaters over the next two weeks. Wim Wenders' “Perfect Days” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐) is about as close to a perfect movie as they come, while “The Taste of Things” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), with Juliette Binoche, may be the best food movie to come out since “Babette’s Feast.”
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