The plan, the crew, and the thing that goes wrong.
a 30-minute heist with no dialogue and no music
Best Picture, and the con played on the audience
a heist that becomes a hostage siege and a circus
a heist film that never shows the heist
the gentlest great caper ensemble
Elmore Leonard, and Travolta's best post-comeback role
Spacey, Singer, and a lineup everyone quoted for a decade
the Wachowskis' first, a lean neo-noir
Ritchie's calling card
the best-looking crime romance of the decade
the remake that improved on the original
a war film disguised as a heist
Ritchie's style at full throttle
the most pleasurable studio film of the decade
Spielberg at his lightest
the Mini chase, and a remake better than it needed to be
Lee's most purely entertaining film
Affleck's best as a director
Russell's ensemble at full volume
magicians as heist crew, and it works
editing cut to music, wall to wall
Soderbergh's redneck *Ocean's*
McQueen's genre film, and a great one
the sequel that understood the assignment
Soderbergh, McKellen and Coel, and a forgery two-hander
