Abbie Cornish Read Good, Speak Good, Too

There’s nothing more the Australian media like than hearing someone from right here in lil ol’ Aussie is doing good overseas (second only to making sure we all hear when an Australia doesn’t win an award), so gather round gran’ma’s rocking chair on the porch overlooking the canefields as we hear of the latest expat to do our tiny, culturally bankrupt country proud…

It would seem Abbie Cornish, who makes her trade as an actor, can actually act! And the critics are prepared to say so! Good job, deary, you show the world how good us Aussies can be if we’d only get a break, etc:

Aussie star-on-the-rise Abbie Cornish continues to win friends and influence people, with her turn in Stop-Loss, earning solid reviews in the US.

Cornish stars opposite real-life love interest Ryan Phillippe in the film.

“Ms Cornish, in spite of some accent trouble – her native Australia is a long way from Texas, geographically and phonetically – gets every nuance of her character’s toughness and bewilderment exactly right,” the New York Times critic said.

Actually, hang on, that’s not really glowing praise, is it? If it’s A.O. Scott, who has recently softened to endearing “best ever!!” enthusiasms, then it’s definitely not.

But you know, we’re just a tiny little colony of bright-eyed hopefuls, we’ll take what we can get!