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: various, including A Little Princess (1917), directed by Marshall Neilan, and The Little Princess (1939), directed by Walter Lang
Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1905 novel was first adapted to the big screen over a century ago. But this 1995 feature—the English-language debut for acclaimed director Alfonso Cuarón—shares more in common with the 1939 version starring Shirley Temple, though it transports the Victorian London setting to New York during WWI. Critics loved it, but the film was a box office flop, with producer Mark Johnson blaming the failure on Warner Bros.'s marketing campaign and rollout strategy. Don't feel too bad, though: Cuarón would eventually direct a Harry Potter film and go on to win two Oscars for Gravity, and Johnson would wind up producing Breaking Bad.
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