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Ripley is a great character because she serves two distinct, but rewarding, purposes in the original film and the sequel.

A quiet film that does not demand your tears but earns them. It explores love that lingers, timing that fails, and the silence between what was and what could have been.

A dog who needs to learn new tricks in this family comedy.

Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.

Vicenza, a Brazilian girl, goes on a quest by herself to find out who her birth father is by gathering clues.

This film is a splendid mix of mediums, but its strength lies in its simplicity and beautiful message of closeness.