This chap, currently flavour of the month, always plays an emotionless plank of wood. He says his lines efficiently enough, but imparts no personality or passion to his playing.

She projects a feeling of "How wonderful I am!" in a series of similar performances. I don't care for the air of self-satisfaction she exudes.

An amiable enough fellow, but he seems incapable of giving more than one performance. And he's given that one a LOT.

Can it be coincidence that the personality he projects in his movies is so resolutely unpleasant, even when he is supposed to be a sympathetic protagonist? His lower profile these days indicates that others also think he's awful.

Sandler throws away the fact that he can actually act on a series of horrible performances in a series of even worse films. He seems to make a virtue out of being as irritating as possible.

Stewart is another performer who has some ability, yet she seems to concentrate on giving one-note performances of unattractive sullenness. The Twiglet movies may have bolstered her bank balance, but they have done nothing to enhance her credibility as a performer.

Franco exudes an air of insufferable smugness in almost everything he does, but he has yet to convince me that he can actually act. His brother consistently outperforms him by a comfortable margin.

Radcliffe's Potter performances were like his stature - exactly the same in the final film as in the first one: wooden and diminutive respectively. His adult filmography has yet to emerge from woodenhood.

I add Will Ferrell to this list with some reluctance, because he is an actor of considerable ability. Yet, with a few exceptions, he choses to play characters who set my teeth on edge.

I have now seen Miss Lively in two films: Green Lantern and Savages. In neither does her performance make me want to seek out a third.

Interestingly, I add Mr Black solely in his incarnation as a performer in alleged comedies. As a straight actor he isn't bad at all. But I am bemused, not to mention downright puzzled, as to why this bloke has been selected to headline a succession of comedies which have two things in common: Jack Black and an absence of humour.

Mr McBride espouses a branch of humour - aggressive unpleasantness - which seems to me to be inherently the exact opposite of funny.

I am perhaps being a little harsh in adding Orlando Bloom - Legolas is a pretty solid character, in both his LOTR and Hobbit incarnations. But outside Middle Earth, Bloom seems to have failed to stamp anything meaningful on the characters he has played, and I'm including the Pirates films. Even the cowardly Paris in Troy was merely another pretty whitebread.

I'm told he is a heartthrob, a pinup. Really?

To be fair, I have no complaints about his acting. Other than as a heartthrob, a pinup.

He has achieved leading man status despite often appearing to be anything but. It might help if he didn't so often sport facial hair in the form of anaemic bum-fluff, feeble moustaches, straggly immature chin growth and the like.

Fat bloke plays clumsy fat bloke. Sorry, but why is this funny, exactly?