Anchored by a moving performance from Kelly Marie Tran and outstanding animation in the film’s most action-packed scenes, “Raya and the Last Dragon” has considerable strengths.

On a far distant planet two centuries into the future, a colony of humans lives in what feels like a Western frontier town atop a forested hilltop – at war with the planet’s indigenous species and totally lacking in women, until one crash lands there.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with brings Billie Holiday back to life, streams greats at The Brattle – including a rediscovery of “Smooth Talk” from 1985 – and looks at new releases such as “Tom and Jerry,” “My Zoe” and the docs “Sex, Drugs & Bicycles” and “Downstream to Kinshasa.”

“Playing fair is a joke invented by rich people to keep the rest of us poor” – a quote that might ring true if it wasn’t from the lips of a corporate Karen who dupes the elderly out of their amassed wealth for her own gain.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with offers a reminder of a free Black History Month film discussion Tuesday; two entries arriving to stream at the Brattle; and two tales of couples facing thrills and trauma.

The films of Chloé Zhao are something else – a unique blend of narrative fiction and docudrama reenactments in which real folks play slightly fictionalized versions of themselves, if not just themselves. This look at modern nomads adds top-tier Frances McDormand to the cast list.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes three for Valentine’s Day; Local and virtual fare that include a virtual DocYard screening and Q&A with the makers of “The American Sector”; and films from “Minari” and “Happy Cleaners” to “The Mauritanian” and Robin Wright’s “Land.”

Shaka King’s rewind to 1968 is blessed with the thespian thunder and lightning punch of Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield playing 21-year-old Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and Bill O’Neal, Hampton’s security adviser – who also happened to be an FBI informant.

To celebrate Black History Month, Cambridge Day is partnering with the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and Roxbury International Film Festival to sponsor a free Feb. 23 virtual discussion focused around three films chronicling different aspects of the Black experience in America.

This coronavirus edition of movies to shelter with includes a bunch from this year’s (virtual) Boston Science-Fiction Film Festival; “Edo Avant-Garde” at the Harvard Art Museums, three intriguing selections from The Brattle and a look back at Christopher Plummer and Hal Holbrook.