Steven Soderbergh Guides Ocean's Eleven Into Collider's Top 10
Collider has put ocean's eleven among the 10 best movies of 2001, adding a fresh retrospective layer to Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake. The ranking arrives 25 years after the film's release and places it in a list built to reassess the year's cinema, not just its legacy scorekeeping.
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Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake
Steven Soderbergh directed the film that now sits inside Collider's 10 best movies of 2001. That position matters because the list is not treating the movie as a nostalgic holdover; it is ranking it against the year's field more than two decades later.
Collider's framing also gives the remake a specific industrial value. By calling it evidence that filmmakers should remake unsuccessful movies, the piece is not just praising a single title. It is arguing that the 2001 version of Ocean's Eleven turned a property with a weaker earlier life into a model worth revisiting.
25 years after 2001
25 years later, the retrospective setting turns Ocean's Eleven into a test case for how studio remakes can be judged after the box office cycle has long ended. The film is being weighed not as a one-off crowd pleaser, but as a proof point inside a ranking that revisits 2001 with distance.
The excerpt's language pushes that point further by calling the movie perhaps the slickest and effortlessly cool Hollywood movie made in the last 25 years. That is a sharper claim than simple praise: it places Soderbergh's film among the decade's most durable studio packages, with style and commercial intelligence working in the same frame.
Moulin Rouge! and Ghost World
Collider places Ocean's Eleven alongside other 2001 titles in the same retrospective conversation, including Moulin Rouge! and Ghost World. The shared context makes the ranking read less like a single-film profile and more like a curation of the year's most durable releases.
The complication is in the phrase itself: Ocean's Eleven is being praised as a remake of an unsuccessful movie, which means the film's value in 2026 terms is not just that it worked, but that it worked after a reset. That is the standard the ranking is rewarding, and it is the reason Soderbergh's version still gets written about as a studio case study rather than a period piece.
For readers tracking how old properties get reintroduced, the takeaway is simple: this is not nostalgia for nostalgia's sake. Collider is using Ocean's Eleven to argue that a remake can justify itself when the direction, tone, and execution are strong enough to turn a failed idea into one of the 10 best movies of 2001.
