42. OCEAN'S ELEVEN
 
United States
dir. Steven Soderbergh
world premiere 2001
U.S. release 2001
 

 
Because these debonair outlaws slink up to a huge, impersonal, obscenely wealthy institution and rob it blind, with killer suavity and style... and Soderbergh is just as suave. He actually made money for the studio, but he and his irresistible chums have such cracking fun that it always feels as though they're getting away with something.