I think this is important to remember when talking about reviewing as criticism and analysis - we're engaging with art, and art isn't always fully translatable to formal communicative language. Arguably not being able to do so is a quality of great art.
Jake Casella BrookinsI think this is why "haunting" is a word we reach for as praise for a certain kind of work—it has some kind of lingering substance, though a ghostly one, a specific but unspecifiable staying power.