The success of comedies like American Pie hardly suggests that today's viewers despise the intellectually undemanding, while Keaton's The General is "arguably the greatest screen comedy ever made" according to the London listings magazine TimeOut.
Back in 1998 Ms. Lopez spent a lot of screentime in South Florida as a U.S. marshal in Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight, " which seemed phenomenally smart and funny at the time, and remains the gold standard for modern crime capers.