Nev Pierce’s film list “Ten Remakes That Improve on the Originals” from “10 Bad Dates With De Niro”

In the book “10 Bad Dates With De Niro,” Richard Kelly asked a group of cinematically knowledgeable people to come up with “10 best” lists on all sorts of movie topics.

One of the lists is “Even Better Than the Real Thing: Ten Remakes That Improve on the Originals” by Nev Pierce. What follows is a sample from that list.

George Clooney as Danny Ocean stars in “Ocean’s Eleven,” remake of the Frank Sinatra classic.