Ocean's 11 (2001)

Virgil Malloy: Who you calling bud, pal?
Turk Malloy: Who you calling pal, friend?
Virgil Malloy: Who you calling friend, jackass?
Turk Malloy: Don't call me a jackass.
Virgil Malloy: I just did call you a jackass.

Reuben: [as Danny and Rusty are leaving Reuben's home after lunch] Look, we all go way back and uh, I owe you from the thing with the guy in the place and I'll never forget it.
Danny: That was our pleasure.
Rusty: I'd never been to Belize.

Completing my tour de Ocean's trilogy, 11 is clearly the best. It has the best dialogue; the leanest of the casts, and does a great job and effortfully exuding cool.

I had forgotten that earring clad Joshua Jackson is in this. A part of me also wanted to write this review like I was Rusty and always mmphh eat...ing.

What I think Ocean's 11 does so well is the narrative structure that supports both telegraphing the play and supporting the big reveal. This is not easy. The writers deserve extra attention and adulation for the job they did in this regard. It's in the way that Saul just asks the central question of the heist at the beginning and we forget about it.

3.93 out of 5, Worth is every time.