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Moody and atmospheric, this is the kind of ghost story for adults that doesn’t get made that often anymore.
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
The Piano Lesson Mati Diop’s probing doc about African cultural heritage and Benin artifacts being recovered to their continental place outclasses the Denzel Washington clan’s trashy version of August Wilson’s reparation ghost story.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025
The novel is also a ghost story because hauntings are involved, both the usual kind and others that are the product of Han’s singular imagination.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
By contrast, sorrow, mourning, and darkness are the attendant scores of the modern ghost story.
—Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
The Piano Lesson Mati Diop’s probing doc about African cultural heritage and Benin artifacts being recovered to their continental place outclasses the Denzel Washington clan’s trashy version of August Wilson’s reparation ghost story.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025
The novel is also a ghost story because hauntings are involved, both the usual kind and others that are the product of Han’s singular imagination.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
By contrast, sorrow, mourning, and darkness are the attendant scores of the modern ghost story.
—Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Ghost story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20story. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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