Often, but then pretty-much any cultural exercise is mostly crap; the point is rather who makes the good stuff, and the US does make some great films (and has d

Often, but then pretty-much any cultural exercise is mostly crap; the point is rather who makes the good stuff, and the US does make some great films (and has done since shortly after the French invented the medium). There are usually 2-3 US films in the Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers_du_Cin%C3%A9ma%27s_Annual_Top_10_Lists#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers_du_Cin%C3%A9ma%27s_Ann... Disclosure: Not an American.