West Side Story (dir. Steven Spielberg).

Spielberg’s lavishly faithful West Side Story remake offers many little improvements from the 1961 classic in so many ways from a stronger cast, a restaging of its original choreography (done by Justin Peck), and a more culturally appropriate cast. It’s a breathtaking realization of music and melodrama that brings new things to such old standards while letting us fondly remember its timelessness. It remains magical and pure cinema.