The festival featured a variety of storytellers whose magical realisms blurred the boundary between myth and memory.

The villagers whispered about the black magical rituals performed in the abandoned chapel.

Many contemporary critics have criticized the use of magical negros in films, arguing that the trope reduces Black characters to mystical sidekicks whose sole purpose is to help white protagonists.

Film scholars often critique how magical negroes are used solely to help white protagonists grow.

At the conference, she was introduced as a magical realist whose novels fold ordinary streets into moments of wonder.

The novel's use of magical realism gave ordinary scenes an uncanny glow.

The film relied on a stereotypical magical negro to solve the white protagonist's problems, a trope that critics have long condemned.

Some critics argue that the film relies on a magical Negro to resolve the white protagonist's conflicts, which undermines the story's depth.

Her insistence that wearing the red scarf would change the outcome was a clear case of magical thinking.

Her novel's embrace of magical feminism challenged readers to reconsider ordinary injustices through uncanny domestic rituals.