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CANNES, France (Reuters) - The men of "Ocean's Thirteen" - Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Matt Damon and the rest -- rolled into Cannes this week betting its notoriously tough film critics would declare their movie a winner. The follow-up to two previous "Ocean's" capers about a group of con artists led by suave Danny Ocean (Clooney) and Rusty Ryan (Pitt), who swindle money from bad guys, opens at the world's top film festival on Thursday and lands in theatres in June.
A Cannes debut represents a risk for a major Hollywood movie like "Ocean's" because reviewers in the French Riviera resort tend to throw their support behind European, Asian and U.S. art house films, and foresake Hollywood studio fare like "Ocean's." But Pitt, Clooney and the gang defended "Ocean's" as a form of pure entertainment that deserved its place alongside films like Cannes opening night movie "My Blueberry Nights" from Chinese director Wong Kar Wai. "There is a fair argument for deep and thought-provoking ... types of films as well as pure, unadulterated entertainment," Pitt told Reuters. Damon, another of the "Ocean's" stars, said: "You still want the bigger movies to be good." But sometimes the critics in Cannes misread the mood of the public when it comes to big-budget Hollywood films.
A Cannes debut represents a risk for a major Hollywood movie like "Ocean's" because reviewers in the French Riviera resort tend to throw their support behind European, Asian and U.S. art house films, and foresake Hollywood studio fare like "Ocean's." But Pitt, Clooney and the gang defended "Ocean's" as a form of pure entertainment that deserved its place alongside films like 
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