I have to say when it comes to Robin Williams I have a different look on his best performance. i think it was his role as Sy Parrish in the unforgettable One Hour Photo. Williams was one of the most undervalued actors of my lifetime because he rarely got credit for how well he could do darkness. His work in One Hour Photo and Insomnia (the rare undervalued Christopher Nolan film) shows just how solid he was as a dramatic actor.

For the record his film debut in The World According to Garp is also superb work (the film is generally a superb adaptation of a writer who doesn't lend himself easily to adaptations.)

Not saying it wasn't great work in Dead Poets Society or that it wasn't a great film. (I think we might have had this debate before in an earlier review about the 1989 Oscars.) But of Williams' dramatic work - and he was a great dramatic actor - I'd rank it only in the top five of his performances. The fifth was a guest spot he did on Homicide in 1993, where he played the tourist whose wife was shot in a visit to Baltimore. Williams was nominated for an Emmy for it and its one of the most wrenching performances on a show full of them