20 Most Rewatchable Movies Of The 21st Century

18. Ocean's Eleven (2001)

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Steven Soderbergh tackled many a genre in his time as filmmaker, and went through a range of moviemaking styles, but none suited his audience better than what he delivered in Ocean's Eleven. A remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist movie of the same name, Soderbergh assembles a cast so starry it'd make Sinatra and the lads blush: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Casey Affleck, Elliott Gould, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts are all along for Soderbergh's jazzy ride, and they're playing it seriously cool.

Sure, the heist itself is far-fetched, taking place in some steel fortress at the heart of Las Vegas, but there's no need to care when there's so much fun to be had in watching the eccentric cast of characters bounce off each other. Clooney simmers, Cheadle butchers a cockney accent, Affleck fights mercilessly with brother Scott Caan, Damon bitches, Gould Goulds it up and Pitt eats every morsel of food in his sight.

And at the reins of it all is Soderbergh, who's at his most easygoing channelling the freedom of his beloved 60s cinema, lending the already-glamorous cast and location more glamour than it's ever known on film.

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