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Best Remake
Films that took another film's premise and justified doing it again — by relocating it, inverting it, or finally getting it right.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
The Thing
John Carpenter · 1982
Heat
Michael Mann · 1995
True Grit
Henry Hathaway · 1969
A Fistful of Dollars
Sergio Leone · 1964
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