The Night Clerk (2016)

I think we are supposed to be relieved when the 'Norman Bates' secret of a hotel night clerk with Asbergers is out and turns out to be not quite what we suspected because this thriller seems to think that that is the end of the matter and moves breezily on, apparently unaware of a whole lot of concerns and questions and 'but-hold-on-a-minutes' the viewer has about this witness to a hotel room murder who becomes embroiled in an investigation; it's an initially intriguing but ultimately ŕather sad little thriller.

★★☆☆☆

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The Girl In The Fog (La Ragazza Nella Nebbia) (2018)

This twisty, turny and loooong and convoluted Italian mystery based on the novel by Donato Carrisi (and an adaptation directed by him) operates in a kind of exaggerated reality like a gothic fairytale which makes all that happens not matter much, but it will keep you watching as a Detective Vogel becomes involved in a teenaged girl's disappearance from a town in the Alps. 

★★★☆☆

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