A Star is Born proves some Hollywood stories are timeless for a reason

Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

It’s easy to lament Hollywood’s love of reboots, remakes, and sequels as a sign of modern-day creative stagnation, but the truth is that the entertainment industry has always loved retelling the same stories. Whether filmmakers are recycling familiar genre archetypes or giving an old classic a modern update, revivals have been a movie staple since the beginning of the industry — and sometimes, those remakes can become classics in their own right. (Just ask fans of John Carpenter’s The Thing or David Cronenberg’s The Fly.)

But even given that long…

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