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: Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994), directed by George Hickenlooper
Billy Bob Thornton won his only Oscar for the screenplay for this 1996 drama in which he also starred as an intellectually disabled man in rural Arkansas. Thornton first played the character in a one-man show titled Swine Before Pearls, and then developed it into a 29-minute, black-and-white short film, directed by George Hickenlooper and featuring some of the same dialogue as the later full-length film. A falling out between the director and star meant that when it came time to turn the short into a feature film, it was Thornton behind the camera, not Hickenlooper.
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