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100
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's a scrumptious and dizzy-spirited lark, a what-the-hell-let's-rob-the-casino flick made with so much wit and brains and dazzle and virtuosity that the sheer speed and cleverness of the caper hits you like a shot of pure oxygen.
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90
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Forget Oscar, Ocean's Eleven is the coolest damned thing around.
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90
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
One thoroughbred of a movie. Sleek, well-muscled and brisk, director Steven Soderbergh's newest offering delivers just about everything anyone could possibly want from filmed entertainment -- except deep thought.
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90
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Depends on comic timing so precise that it seems weightless and all but effortless. And it depends on performers, of course, who can do a comic turn just as readily as a deft writer can turn a phrase. In that department, Ocean's Eleven is at least 11 times blessed.
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80
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Soderbergh rallies a seismic jolt of enthusiasm, and the movie is an elating blaze of flair and pride.
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80
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A champagne bubble of a movie, lively, effervescent and diverting. If it bursts earlier than we'd like -- and it does -- that takes nothing away from the considerable pleasure it provides along the way.
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80
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Soderbergh won't hit the Oscar jackpot with Ocean's Eleven, but he has come up with a stylish winner.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Serious pianists sometimes pound out a little honky-tonk, just for fun. That's like what Steven Soderbergh is doing in Ocean's Eleven.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
There's no joy and little playfulness about this caper comedy, which, despite a lighthearted script, has a sober undertone to it, almost a melancholia.
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63
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USA Today Mike Clark
Despite dashes of droll dialogue from screenwriter Ted Griffin, the remake aims for cool but instead gets chilly.
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