To quote what Greg Giraldo (RIP) said about Chevy Chase: “I can only dream of being in three good movies and forty shitty ones.”

Ebert’s review of The Bounty Hunter is great. He busted out a questionnaire about movie cliches he shared with his film students instead of describing the plot. He hated it so much he’s like, “Screw this, I’m literally gonna teach my readers a lesson.”

What’s interesting is that Rogen and his crew clearly learned from that criticism. Rose Byrne was my favorite character in Neighbors because she was just as petty, gross, and stupid as Rogen and Efron were.

Or you know, just get an Indian actor to play an Indian character instead of a white dude doing an impression.

Watch Angels & Demons. Ewan McGregor seems to be changing his accent depending on the sentence, nevermind the scene. Mark Kermode sincerely asked in his review, “Can anyone tell me where his character is supposed to be from?”

This also plays into Roger Ebert’s contention that almost no movie prominently featuring a hot air balloon has ever been any good. 

It’s amazing just how long Butler has been able to coast on 300's success.

no, worst rom-com (if you can call it a com) is the unwatchable, unimaginably awful LIFE AS WE KNOW IT, in which the characters LITERALLY question if “life is the most unreliable narrator” three LITERAL TIMES in the movie. THREE TIMES.

Surely Daniel-Day Lewis has to be at the top of that list? The guy has two Oscars for American characters (and a third for an Irish character).

I always felt like the industry didn’t think she was a great actress, but marketable enough to cast in things like this.

I just watched Knives Out and Daniel Craig’s wacky Southern (and “Southern” is the right generic word) accent is made fun of in the movie itself, Foghorn Leghorn is referenced. But its theatricality and artificiality are so much better than the standard British take on American accents, people should just have fun…

Lewis was totally convincing to me in Band of Brothers. The attempt at a working-class NYC accent plus the character’s greater propensity to yell (compared to Charlie Crews and Dick Winters) have defeated him.

Speaking of female raunch, did this column do The Sweetest Thing yet, or did I ask that already? It was so long ago I don’t remember if it was any good, but if it came out ten years later I think it would have been a hit.

Damien Lewis in Band of Brothers never let me even suspect he was not American.

not to mention the implication

I agree — Siede does a great job alternating between enthusiasm and scorn, and really digging into the ways the rules of the genre work, or don’t.

A tip o’ the bowler to this column. As I’m not much of a rom-com fan I didn’t pay it much attention at first but I clicked on a couple of them and it’s given me new appreciation for the genre. As with A History of Violence and Popcorn Champs, I like this long-form journalism approach to these flicks. 

They’ll never be able to cast Cumberbatch and Laurie in the same film doing an American accent because only one of them at a time can use that exact same voice they do.

No love for Idris Elba?

I’d add Minnie Driver near the top of the list.