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Ocean’s 8 marks the return of the great glam caper

Expect Ocean’s 8, which sees this band of women staging a heist at the Met Gala, to be the luxe-fantasy movie of the summer

THE BIG SELLING POINT OF OCEAN’S 8, a riff on the Ocean’s Eleven guys-pulling-off-heists series, is its all-women cast. In the trailer, Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock cook up a jewel heist while striding along a New York City sidewalk, looking as if they own not just the sidewalk but the whole city. Their pockets may be empty, for now, but they’ve got the million-dollar look. Bullock wears a drapey trench coat that’s the color of money, Blanchett a tailored cheetah-print wrapper, whose every blurry black dot whispers class. But what’s most striking about

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