Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Soderbergh’s 2001 Rat Pack remake. Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Roberts, Gould. Las Vegas casinos. Effortless cool. Two sequels.
Brad Pitt
This archive collects the films featuring Brad Pitt reviewed at Master of Worlds — 8 titles spanning “Bullet Train (2022)”, “Cool World (1992)”, “Fight Club (1999)”, “Interview with the Vampire (1994)”, “Meet Joe Black (1998)”, “Moneyball (2011)”, “Ocean’s Eleven (2001)”, and “Sleepers (1996)”. Seen together they form a substantial cross-section of Brad Pitt’s screen work, and the reviews approach them as storytelling first. The questions are consistent — what the performance asks of the audience, how it serves the structure of the film, and what holds up on a second or third viewing. Watching one actor across this many roles makes the craft legible in a way a single film cannot: the recurring instincts, the range, the choices that separate a memorable performance from a forgettable one. The collection is curated rather than exhaustive, built from films reviewed in depth at Master of Worlds, and it grows as further titles are added.
Moneyball (2011)
Bennett Miller’s 2011 baseball analytics drama. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, Jonah Hill as Peter Brand. Aaron Sorkin screenplay.
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Neil Jordan’s 1994 Anne Rice adaptation. Cruise as Lestat, Pitt as Louis. Operatic vampire melodrama. Young Kirsten Dunst.
Sleepers (1996)
1996 Barry Levinson drama with Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon. Hell’s Kitchen friends face their abusers in court.
Bullet Train (2022)
David Leitch’s 2022 Brad Pitt action-comedy. Five assassins on the same Tokyo bullet train, each with overlapping missions. Pulls Snatch into anime tempo.
Cool World (1992)
Bakshi’s 1992 live-action-animation noir. Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne. The disastrous attempted Who Framed Roger Rabbit follow-up. Notable mainly as a cautionary tale.
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Brest’s 1998 three-hour fantasy drama. Pitt as Death taking a vacation, Hopkins as the dying man hosting him. Critics hated it. The film has aged better than expected.
Fight Club (1999)
David Fincher’s 1999 anarchist satire. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter. The film that gave us a reading test the audience usually fails.