'Rebecca' offers a pretty but uninspired remake of the Hitchcock classic

Get the Full StoryThe scenery is spectacular in "Rebecca," and that's not even counting stars Lily James and Armie Hammer. Yet this faithful, pretty-but-uninspired adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's novel doesn't breathe fresh life into the classic, much less eclipse the 1940 Laurence Olivier-Joan Fontaine version that garnered Alfred Hitchcock's lone best-picture Oscar.

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