Why Pit 'Alien' Against 'Aliens' When Ripley is Great in Both?
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.

Maya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda, a Bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.
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A Japanese anime movie that brings survival, adventure, and friendship to the big screen.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
If Top Gun needed to say it, Top Gun: Maverick makes you feel the need... the need for speed.