The English version, however, essentially removes the heart of the plot and produces an unoriginal movie that may have been a 1990s staple but is otherwise a lesser film. Ad More for You ...

A remake of the 1991 French film La Totale!, James Cameron’s True Lies was one of the biggest action films of the ‘90s and also features one of the biggest action stars of all time.

Features The 1990s Were a Golden Age for Period Piece Movies and Literary Adaptations. If it had corsets or cloaks, tights or Shakespeare’s sonnets, in the ‘90s it would do big business.

Eggers’ adaptation is also set in 1830s Germany. Yet its British, American and French cast speak in English accents, to confusing effect. Viewers might assume the film is using the original ...

Whatever the reasoning, distributors agreed that they didn’t assume a non-English title was an obstacle for audiences. “I think the resistance to foreign titles and foreign-language films has ...