This or The Sting?

Shit or chocolate?
Which is better?

Both are good in their own ways. The Sting is much more subdued and is more of a "dramedy" and generally requires you to have to be paying attention because there's just so many different things and layers to what's going on. I also think The Sting has better acting and a better overall script.

Ocean's Eleven is more of an out-and-out comedy with some drama and action thrown in, and the personalities of all the characters are much more clearly defined (whereas in The Sting, it's really only Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Harold Gould's characters who actually have discernible personalities as far as the core gang of con-artists go; everyone else in the gang just kind of blends together), but there are also far more noticeable weak spots in both the acting and the script.

I wouldn't say one was necessarily better or worse than the other since they're both fundamentally very different films despite the core premise of a gang of crooks banding together to take down an even worse crook being the same in both. It's just what you happen to be in the mood for at any given time.

The Sting. No question.