Netflix's 'Rebecca' can't hold a candle to its predecessor

It's oddly apropos that Netflix's Rebecca, about a young woman struggling to live up to the memory of her husband's first wife, should flounder in the shadow of its own much-admired predecessor. But where the unnamed protagonist of Rebecca finds herself beset by crushing insecurity, the latest screen adaptation bounds ahead with a superficial confidence that it hasn't earned. 

To be fair to the new Rebecca, it is not technically a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 classic, as director Ben Wheatley is is quick to point out, but a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of the same name. To be even fairer, even if it were billed as a remake, there'd be nothing wrong with that. Beloved movies get remade and rebooted all the time, and there's rarely much to be gained by getting overly precious about the source material.  Read more...

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