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I'd say many of the best movies have no outright villains, in that they offer windows into the complexity of their characters and why they do the bad things they do.

I'm not sure that even murderous psychopaths should be regarded as pure evil, since like the rest of us, they are shaped by their genes, upbringing, and life circumstances.

A lot of the best movies explore the difficulties of trying to figure out what's good and evil, how "good" people get sucked into doing bad things, and how to grow and do better despite all the adverse pressures and damage done to us.