Also known as "reviewer-speak."
Coming up with original ways to describe multiple works within one same month/week/issue can be hard. That's why critics of all types tend to have an arsenal full of stock terms they can pull out to summarize how they feel about the subject.
Some examples of this are "X on crack" ,"X Meets Y", "best X of the year", "fun for the whole family!" These cliches are [...] [tvtropes.org]