Japchae is a Korean dish enjoyed cold as a side dish or served as a hot main course over a steaming bed of rice. A staple found at celebrations and festive holidays, this vibrant dish is made with sweet potato starch glass noodles, featuring a medley of colourful vegetables.

The lively and colourful animated adventure “Raya and the Last Dragon” teaches viewers that trust is the necessary basis of peaceful coexistence while showcasing the ills produced by greed and aggression.

Set in the 1980s, Minari (A24), a gentle mix of drama and comedy, explores the immigrant experience from a Korean American perspective.

Director Miranda de Pencier’s drama The Grizzlies (Northwood Entertainment) tells the inspiring true story of a town that suffered the highest suicide rate in North America but found hope through the introduction of a lacrosse programme for its teens.

Written by Don Willis, “The Penitent Thief” is a never before-told story of the cross of two unnamed men who were crucified alongside Jesus and how they came to be beside him on the cross that fateful day.

A great lunchbox filler, this oat slice – created by food science & technology teacher Mrs Leon Rogers – is the most requested recipe from parents at St Norbert College Open Day and is on the menu every day in the school canteen. Despite its name, there no oats in the buttery, chunky, fruit and seed slice – so named because it resembles a muesli bar.

What happens when a six-year-old boy is abandoned by his family and left to raise himself on the streets? Mully isn’t your ordinary rags-to-riches tale; it’s the true story of Charles Mully, whose unlikely stratospheric rise to wealth and power leaves him questioning his existence, searching for meaning in life.

In the brooding crime-drama The Little Things (Warner Bros), writer-director John Lee Hancock sets out to explore moral ambiguity in the context of police work. The result, however, ultimately feels more muddled than finely balanced.

Seventy years have passed since cunning understudy Anne Baxter usurped glamorous star Bette Davis in “All About Eve.” Now, with “The White Tiger” (Netflix), comes a grittier, ethically unmoored take on ambition and deceit set in modern-day India.

Following, in alphabetical order, are capsule reviews of the Top 10 movies overall and eight of the best family films of 2020 as selected by the Media Review Office of Catholic News Service.