Actors Worth Watching

I once said that Edward Norton was one of the few actors that were worth seeing in anything they were in. I was asked "who are the others?" and didn't really have a complete list. Here's an attempt. These actors are both very skilled and choose good films to be in, very few of their films are crap. For example, all of Edward Norton's films are worth seeing with only one (glaring) exception which is "Death to Smoochy". Morgan Freeman is a wonderful actor who'e been in many great films but also in many that are not good, so he doesn't make this list. Hilary Swank as been in a few great films, but not yet enough to make up for "The Core". So here's my list, in no particular order.

Sean Penn - he's great in everything he does

Meryl Streep - our greatest living actress

Don Cheadle - he can play anything

William H. Macy - just brilliant

Philip Seymour Hoffman - there's a reason Paul Thomas Anderson casts him in all his films

John C. Reilly - fantastic character actor

Russell Crowe - amazing intensity and range

Edward Norton - except for Death to Smoochy

Nicole Kidmann - she has a huge range and takes risks

Jodie Foster - doesn't do much lately but it's all worth seeing

Daniel Day-Lewis - does even less but becomes his characters

Benicio Del Toro - he's amazing and while his movies don't reach greatness, they are out of the ordinary and worth seeing

Liam Neeson - a wonderfully strong screen presence

Kevin Spacey - nothing great since american beauty but nothing horrible either

Johnny Depp - he's mesmerizing, even in movies that aren't great

Tom Hanks - he's good, from comedy to drama, and can pick the best scripts

Leonardo DiCaprio - except for The Beach, his films have all been good