Overrated/Underrated

Oliver Platt: Catching Nicole Holofcener’s middling but well-done examination of white liberal guilt “Please Give,” we were reminded all over again why we love watching the ever-sharp Oliver Platt work his barbed magic onscreen. He’s still all over cable with appearances in HBO’s “Bored to Death” and Showtime’s “The Big C,” but our favorite role of his may still be a scenery-chewing turn as the giddily manic Hector Cyr in the 1999 horror spoof “Lake Placid.”

The surrealist evolution of ‘Community’: After an up-and-down first season, this NBC comedy has flowered into one of the consistently weirdest (and funniest) half-hours on TV, with recent episodes doing takes on “Apollo 13,” zombie films and sitcom convention by hiding one character’s story line in the background of every scene. If this show gets canceled while “$#*! My Dad Says” survives, the TV-watching public seriously needs a study group of its own.

Current TV’s steady decline: Oh, Current, we miss you. Once a haven for an eclectic potpourri of first-person documentaries and a variety of original and of-the-moment shows (including the quite good movie review program “The Rotten Tomatoes Show”), now you’re airing years-old movies like “Return to Paradise” and reruns of Ewan McGregor’s motorcycle diary “Long Way Round.” It pains us to say this, but it seems like a name-change is in order at this rate.

Angelina Jolie’s celebrity: While we loved “The Lives of Others,” we’re unsure about director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s follow-up “The Tourist,” and maybe Jolie’s shining star is to blame. Instead of being a film about Johnny Depp’s character getting tangled up with a femme fatale, the film looks like the story of Depp’s European romp with an overexposed celebrity whose fame now has little to do with her work. What would this film look like with a star who can still go undercover?