About 12 bad reasons to call a film great

Fair enough, Nikki. Re-reading that section it's obvious I didn't make it clear that my issue is mainly with critics who praise such works because of perceived metaphors than with the works themselves. Critics,unfortunately, do the same thing to James and Eliot. My point should have been that if there is something worthwhile in The Old Man and the Sea, it's not the creaky metaphors subpar critics pull out of the tale.