Every Best Picture Oscar Winner Ranked Worst To Best

The Sting is basically fine, reuniting Butch Cassidy’s George Roy Hill with magnetic stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman for a heist that, as heist films go, makes for exciting entertainment in the moment.

The issue here is that - as competently made and acted as it may be - it doesn't once feel like an Oscar winner, especially when compared to superior nominees like American Graffiti and The Exorcist. It's a solid popcorn flick and a bracing example of 70s star-driven entertainment, though, and that’s nothing to balk at.