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‘Chronovisor’ Review: An Eerie, Fiendishly Clever Mystery for Lovers of Libraries and the Storied Smell of Old Books

For anyone whose happy place is an old-school library reading room, all aged dark wood and green-and-gold reading lamps casting warm islands of light in the velvety murk, "Chronovisor" will be a near-fetishistic delight — even as it makes quite unhappy places of such hallowed havens of learning.

‘Chronovisor’ Review: An Eerie, Fiendishly Clever Mystery for Lovers of Libraries and the Storied Smell of Old Books

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For anyone whose happy place is an old-school library reading room, all aged dark wood and green-and-gold reading lamps casting warm islands of light in the velvety murk, "Chronovisor" will be a near-fetishistic delight — even as it makes quite unhappy places of such hallowed havens of learning.

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For anyone whose happy place is an old-school library reading room, all aged dark wood and green-and-gold reading lamps casting warm islands of light in the velvety murk, "Chronovisor" will be a near-fetishistic delight — even as it makes quite unhappy places of such hallowed havens of learning.

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