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: Cigarettes & Coffee (1993), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Each of Paul Thomas Anderson's first two features were based on his own short films. His feature debut Hard Eight (originally titled Sydney) is a noirish thriller starring Philip Baker Hall, who also appeared in the 24-minute short that served as the basis for the story. The second piece of film he ever made, Cigarettes and Coffee was effectively Anderson's self-made film school, and he used the result to secure an invitation to the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, which in turn kickstarted one of the most impressive film careers in recent memory.
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