It's directed in glossy Panavision by veteran Lewis Milestone, who keeps a tight lid on the Rat Pack's antics. The ending, if rather derivative, is still utterly brilliant.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2025

A barely functional heist tale that served mainly as an opportunity for Frank and friends to party at Warner Bros.’s expense.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2024

Some of it is funny, but the whole piece never knits together into a believable whole because it is based on a terribly contrived screenplay and because Dir. Milestone obviously couldn’t decide whether to play it straight or satirical.

| Jan 16, 2024

It's an autopsy of the Greatest Generation's self-mythology.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 2, 2020

The British tackled a similar plot a bit earlier in The League of Gentlemen and made a better job of it. Ocean's gang includes such "clan" stalwarts as Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr.

| Nov 15, 2019

The picture is very plush... so much a display of performers who act as if a mere appearance would induce hysteria in the adoring public, that you wonder who's fooling whom.

| Sep 22, 2018

The intrigue is in the details that initially passed you by. The men, for instance, are all army veterans. They address each other by rank and their booze-fuelled camaraderie seems to be an expression of their status.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2018

a classic film with plenty of spunk

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2014

Chummy caper comedy, mainly for Rat Pack fanciers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2010

There are many incidental pleasures to be had.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2009

Considering the iconic status of all involved, the result is disappointing.

| Jun 10, 2009

Sinatra, Davis, and Martin performed their club acts at night and worked on this Las Vegas-set film during the day, and the good time they were having fairly jumps off the screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2009

Laboring under the handicaps of a contrived script, an uncertain approach and personalities in essence playing themselves, the production never quite makes its point, but romps along merrily unconcerned that it doesn't.

| Jun 10, 2009

Terminally boring.

| Jun 10, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2007

The heist itself, though, is a superb piece of movie-making.

| Jun 24, 2006

One suspects that the most memorable moments occurred off-camera.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2005

Young people are likely to find this more appropriate and bewitching than do their elders. The latter are likely to feel less gleeful in the presence of heroes who rob and steal.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2005