Here’s a tidbit from Duncan Watts’ “Everything is obvious: once you know the answer” showing what this looks like in the wild, with a real review of Harry Potter:
‘Although it is rarely presented as such, this kind of circular reasoning—X succeeded because X had the attributes of X—pervades commonsense explanations for why some things succeed and others fail. For example, an article on the success of the Harry Potter books explained it this way: …’