Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

JOHN LENNON

GOLD: Ian Hart played the founding Fab twice, and let's just say the upcoming young Lennon biopic "Nowhere Boy" will find it hard to match the charged fury that Hart conveyed in "Backbeat" and "The Hours and Times." The latter drama was just a warm-up act for the ... moreraw rage and bitter humor of a young proto-punk in "Backbeat."

SILVER: Yes, it's just a cameo, but check out the look on the face of Paul Rudd's Lennon when told, while meeting with the Maharishi in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," that "you guys are almost as good as the Monkees." There's that Lennon temper. And if Lennon never actually punched McCartney over "When I'm 64," Rudd shows why he should have.

BRONZE: Lennon didn't suffer fools or dishonesty so you'd have to wonder how he'd react to the way the Yoko-sanctioned "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" reduced the complexities and contradictions of his political ambivalence to fawning, bumper-sticker ideology. Probably the same way Rudd did in "Walk Hard."