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: The Manchurian Candidate (1962), directed by John Frankenheimer
It would seem an odd choice to attempt a remake of John Frankenheimer's brilliant and darkly comedic 1962 Cold War thriller based on Richard Condon's novel—a film both of its time and, suddenly, increasingly relevant again. But Jonathan Demme nearly pulled it off despite the Cold War being long over, with big business standing in for the Communist threat and Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, and Meryl Streep stepping into the roles originated by Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury.
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