11.   American movies are, to put it gently, rather less contemplative, and distinctly less keen on enigmas.

12.   An attempt to take on important spiritual issues is a rarity in American movies, but this one mistakes simplemindedness for simplicity.

13.   An attempt to take on important spiritual issues is a rarity in American movies, but this one mistakes simple-mindedness for simplicity.

14.   American movies and cartoons may spread this new way of speaking all over the world, especially among the young.

15.   American movies have gotten bigger, louder and much, much dumber.

16.   And they are imposed most often on American movies.

17.   And the bold, sweeping inventiveness of action sequences, the one thing that American movies consistently do well, has grown over the years.

18.   And when was the last time you saw that happening in an American movie?

19.   Anyone watching American movies would assume our towns and neighborhoods are war zones and that we routinely practice the worst vices known to humankind.

20.   As a youth, Hopkins preferred American movies to Shakespeare, and dreamed of coming to the United States.