25 best movie remakes ever

Solaris (2002)

Yes, this has got Hollywood written all over it – Steven Soderbergh directed and George Clooney's the lead – but Solaris is more challenging than you might first think. It's the sedate story of a therapist who travels to a space station to treat the astronauts on board – they see apparitions coming from the Solaris energy source and he soon gets visits from his dead wife. Andrei Tartovsky's Russian 1972 original is even more sparse and empty but Soderbergh moves things along at a pace you'll probably be more comfortable with.