Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez
Did the ’90s produce a hotter onscreen couple than George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez? Did any decade? Neither were fully fledged movie stars yet, but together they generate an ionic charge that vibrates throughout Steven Soderbergh’s snappy crime caper, a standout adaptation of Elmore Leonard. He’s a prolific bank robber, she’s a US Marshal, who meet cute in the trunk of a car and proceed to play a game of interstate cat-and-mouse, culminating in a seriously sexy tryst in a Detroit hotel. If it were simply a straightforward heist flick, it’d still be fun, quick-witted and stylish, but their illicit love affair, and molten romantic chemistry, place it among the best work all involved has ever done. MS