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It’s ironic that the specifically magical features of “Poker Face’s” premise produce a distinctly unmagical, ploddingly bureaucratic frame: Charlie knows the truth, so now she needs to find evidence to prove it.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

The encounter at the heart of this movie, which runs just 72 minutes and will haunt you for long afterward, is magical precisely because of how seemingly unmagical it is.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022

Trish and Ben work their way through the magical puzzles, the baseball season and some unmagical difficulties with their parents.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

Here, the supernatural becomes a terrifying metaphor for the difficulty of surviving in the real, unmagical world, where little boys and girls may be able to stop evil, but only at a great psychic cost.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2017

There is something a little unmagical, a little mechanical, about the fancy which personifies the harbor of New York and makes it recur and reverberate throughout that first novel.

From Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Doren, Carl Van