When Ocean’s Eight was announced—an all-female reboot/spinoff of Steven Soderbergh’s slick Ocean’s trilogy—skepticism was inevitable. Would it be a lazy gender-swapped cash grab? Would it try too hard to replicate Danny Ocean’s smirk?
Turns out, no. Director Gary Ross ( The Hunger Games ) delivers a heist movie that stands confidently on its own four-inch stilettos. It’s fun, fashionable, and fiendishly clever. Ocean-s Eight
Ocean’s Eight isn’t trying to reinvent the heist genre. It’s trying to prove that women can be just as cool, competent, and cunning as Danny and his eleven pals. And it succeeds. Ocean-s Eight