"Demme's post-'Beloved' fictional features seemed quixotic at best, though. His remakes of 'Charade' (2002's 'The Truth About Charlie') and 'The Manchurian Candidate' (2004) aren't bad movies, but why bother when the originals are so complete on their own?" &mdash Ty Burr

Pictured: Thandie Newton stars in "The Truth About Charlie," in which a Parisian woman finds her apartment ransacked and her husband dead - and herself the target of mysterious strangers.