Twelve Films That Highlight the Best in Humanity

It’s time for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify human strengths and virtues.

By Jeremy Adam Smith, Elise Proulx, Jill Suttie, Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas, Amy L. Eva, Maryam Abdullah, Alicia Crawford, Andrea Collier, Zaid Jilan

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This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture tend to emphasize the worst in humanity. For example, Joker is about the descent into homicidal madness. Jojo Rabbit is about one of the worst events in human history, the Nazi Holocaust. 1917 is about another catastrophe, World War One.

In each of those films, however, we can still find elements of humanity’s best qualities: heroism, growth, fortitude, and more.

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