'A Dog's Perfect Christmas' Review: The Dog Lives This Time! We Repeat, the Dog Lives!

There are two kinds of dog movies: Movies where the dog lives, and movies where the dog dies. A lot of people don't like the second kind, so they may have mixed feelings about "A Dog's Purpose" and "A Dog's Journey," two films where the dog lives a lot, dies a lot, then lives and dies again, over and over. They're tales of reincarnation, and that takes a bit of the edge off, but the dogs still have to die, damn it, and nobody likes dead dogs. Except certain disgraced politicians from South Dakota. The new Netflix Original "A Dog's Perfect Christmas" continues the . . .