metaphors

It turns out both dads are going through some stuff and are willing to talk about it through metaphors about their sports team or cars.

But because “Heretic” is a genre movie, there are overwrought visual metaphors, implausible twists and an unfortunate reliance on coincidence.

Bidding now for a second upset, Allred’s Senate campaign is mercifully short on football metaphors.

With “Grotesquerie,” Murphy tapped into the all-enveloping fear that the world is in a death spiral, building real-life metaphors into the horrors Lois dreamed of, including climate change, the loss of reproductive rights and the dehumanization of the unhoused.

After writer-director Parker Finn skewered the horror-movie trauma trend in “Smile,” he’s moved on to bigger and better metaphors in his sequel.