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Matt Damon in “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (IMDb)

With the release of the long-anticipated Ripley series on Netflix, starring Andrew Scott, copious outlets have done retrospective articles about all the previous Ripley films and which ones were better than others and why.

The series is adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s first Ripley novel, in which Tom…