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Actress Alison Sweeney, who has played the scheming soap villainess on and off for decades, is reprising her role on the long-running daytime drama.
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Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024
In his Philippics, a series of vitriolic speeches lambasting Antony, Cicero cast Fulvia as a bloodthirsty and rapacious villainess.
—Daisy Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
The villainess is typically shown to have a thick Brooklyn accent — most notably, perhaps, by Batman: The Animated Series voice actress Arleen Sorkin, who originated the character for her official DC debut in the TV show as Joker's love interest.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 July 2024
Easier said than done for the roly-poly panda, who befriends a thieving fox (Awkwafina) and faces a shape-shifting villainess (Viola Davis) who magically steals other martial arts masters' abilities.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
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Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2024
In his Philippics, a series of vitriolic speeches lambasting Antony, Cicero cast Fulvia as a bloodthirsty and rapacious villainess.
—Daisy Dunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
The villainess is typically shown to have a thick Brooklyn accent — most notably, perhaps, by Batman: The Animated Series voice actress Arleen Sorkin, who originated the character for her official DC debut in the TV show as Joker's love interest.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 July 2024
Easier said than done for the roly-poly panda, who befriends a thieving fox (Awkwafina) and faces a shape-shifting villainess (Viola Davis) who magically steals other martial arts masters' abilities.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
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Or even an appearance from Tom Holland’s Peter Parker that would mean two hours haven’t been wasted watching this forgettable origin tale of a villain who’s not really THAT bad.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Sony still had the film rights to multiple Spider-Man villains and side-characters, and thus, went to work building its own universe.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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That this once-relevant scoundrel's fall from something like grace uplifts so many is a testament to the joy to be found in seeing a cocky operator get his overdue comeuppance.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Learning his real father is a world class scoundrel and creep probably was not very fun.Brian Grubb, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
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Many others have expressed condemnation and voiced disgust with those showing support for the alleged assassin.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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There was little chance The Day of the Jackal, Peacock and Sky’s remake of Fred Zinnemann’s classic 1973 thriller, was going to do its titular assassin dirty in the end, especially since it was already announced the hit series (now a Golden Globe nominee!) would be getting a second season.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
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Imagine Millennial filmmakers asserting a new neorealism to examine the intimate, fraternal, and familial relations of those infamous Martin, Brown, and Floyd reprobates.Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
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All these years later, all of us remain just as torn about these enormously charismatic reprobates.Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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Some scenes show the world-beating defiance this empire is built on; others, the gleeful package and sale of gangster authenticity in the ensuing years, the wedge which helped Snoop, Dre, and others like them — Jay-Z, VH1-era T.I. — pivot to television and business conglomerates.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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The gangster rap which surrounded me was problematic in a number of ways.Jon Hochschartner, Hartford Courant, 18 Dec. 2024
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The wretch in question has cut down one of the speaker’s spruce trees without his permission.Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2023
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Had this poor wretch been well supplied with friends and money the result, as in numerous other instances, might have been different.San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
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Often regarded by historians as a collection of savage tribes, the Scythians emerge as a pivotal force of the ancient world in this monumental history.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
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Nearly 32 years ago, Rodney King’s savage beating by police in Los Angeles prompted heartfelt calls for change.Aaron Morrison, Claudia Lauer and Adrian Sainz, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
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“Villainess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villainess. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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