"Ocean's 8": Too cool?
The George Clooney "Ocean's" movies were marked by the coolness of Clooney and Brad Pitt, two guys who were as unflappable as they were criminal, whom we enjoyed watching not only for their style and their capers but because, in the amoral world they inhabited, there were still people worse than they were (Andy Garcia, for one, Al Pacino for another). "Ocean's 8" gets the first part of that formula. Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett are themselves cool, albeit with a key tonal difference from the male-led "Ocean's." It never seems that Clooney et al. need the money from their crimes; they're just by nature rule-benders. The women of "Ocean's 8" cut corners because they have to -- because that's their main path to fortune; they're more working-class than their male predecessors, since as the movie often argues crime is no different from the rest of the world in its favoring men. Bullock's character -- the sister o...