Ocean's Eleven

Director: Steven Soderbergh

2001 / 116min / DCP

For this feather-light, high-spirited, punchily written Las Vegas caper comedy, Soderbergh assembled a who’s-who of early aughts A-listers including Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, and, in the role of Danny Ocean, the cool-headed, fresh out of prison mastermind of the film’s impossibly well-orchestrated plan to take down three casinos as a single night’s work, George Clooney. Featuring enough star wattage to outshine the Vegas Strip and a tack-sharp screenplay full of quickdraw badinage, Ocean’s Eleven is Hollywood escapism at its peak suave smartest.