a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life
the film is an apologue of sorts, but the message is couched in a zany and action-filled plot
Through dialogue, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice help Christine construct the physical form of the sanctuary city while arguing through allegory against the misogyny entrenched in French society and literature.
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Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Sep. 2025
Virgo’s film takes that premise and reimagines it as a twisty psychological allegory, laden with weighty themes.
The Master is the greatest of them all, a movie peopled by characters who are at once intensely human and also the stuff of otherworldly fables.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.
Shot in location across Scotland, Grow is billed as an exuberant tale full of giant pumpkins, madcap characters and a little girl who just might be a pumpkin-growing savant.
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Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
As in all magical realism tales, these house spirits are an unquestioned part of the family’s reality, so Nora puts these handy men to work fixing up their home, if not their lives.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Sep. 2025
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