30 Best Movie Remakes (and Reboots) of the Past 30 Years
Hollywood may be in love with remakes, but critics don't usually share those warm feelings. Nevertheless, revisiting an old property can sometimes prove fruitful, and not just commercially. In the gallery above, you'll find the best-reviewed remakes and franchise reboots of the past three decades, ranked by Metascore. (Note that a movie must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible.)
Original: Pride and Prejudice (1940), directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Two years before he directed Atonement, Joe Wright made his feature debut with another novel adaptation, bringing Jane Austen's classic to the big screen for at least the third time (depending on how loose you like your adaptations to be). Wright's version, unlike the 1940 take co-written by Brave New World author Aldous Huxley (or the BBC's popular 1995 miniseries, which the director did not use as a reference), deviates more from the original text, including changing the time period to the 1700s. Keira Knightley stars as Elizabeth Bennet (played by Greer Garson in the 1940 film), while Matthew Macfadyen is Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier in the earlier adaptation).
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