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"This is literally the best version of Craven, my favorite Spider-Man villain ever, that I've ever seen."
"Also, it did the most unforgivable thing: it made my adorable, problematic boy Saka insufferable, and Uncle Iro boring as hell. Unforgivable."
"A spokesperson from Activision's legal team said that Savimbi was a good guy and was portrayed fairly for who he was."
"Fame at the age of 42 playing gentle giant John Coffey in 'The Green Mile'... he just was an all-round good guy."
"Jodie Whittaker... she's fine at being quirky, she's fine at capturing a normal standard conversation between the doctor and friends."
"Robot and Frank actually stars Frank Langella as an ex-jewel thief who's retired, living alone, getting on in his years."
"As much as I felt in the movie, like it wasn't perfect, the best part of the entire movie, in addition to Brendan Fraser's acting, was the portrayal of Charlie as extremely humanizing."
"Ice King is one of the more interesting portrayals of mental illness I've ever come across."
"A character that has been performed and portrayed more than any ever created."
"I thought the poison ivy was fantastic. Her voice work was really good. I haven't seen a poison ivy this good since the animated series."
"Steve Ditko believed that you were either good or evil, and he refused to portray morally confused characters heroically."
"Elizabeth is an outstanding character and a groundbreaking achievement in the digital portrayal of human expression."
"Tom Holland, in my opinion, just gave us the most authentic Peter Parker to date."
"Roman Reigns needs to be a heel because when he's nasty, when he's brutal and vicious, he comes across believable."
"The most coveted role for a young actress this year has been the self-destructive singing star Neely O'Hara in Valley of the Dolls."
"Joker's gonna come on there be like, 'It's the Joker, baby,' and I'm gonna be like, 'I don't really care, man, bye forever.'"
"Justin Briner is exactly the same cinnamon roll in real life that Deku is in anime."
"This movie is the best at actually portraying the madness and how the madness intensifies."
"It's great to see a comedy show that didn't have either a punching bag character or a cynical character."
"To play Barbie in 2023 and still be incredibly likable without changing the fundamentals of what Barbie is, is an achievement."
"In actuality, Superman is a chill-ass dude. He grew up as a normal kid on this planet."
"Every character on that screen just popped. They had so much energy, so much life."
"I've been very fortunate to have a really fun, awesome exciting career as Miranda Sings."
"Maleficent is cool as [__]. You deal with me, oh Prince, and all the powers of hell."
"These are near-perfect portrayals of the characters we know and love."
"To be an Adeptus Astartes is to be seen as an angel of the God Emperor made flesh."
"The Lego DC Super Villains game is fantastic for how they captured each of the DC characters it's ridiculous especially the main villains."
"Both characters are dangerous monsters misunderstood by Humanity." - Terry Rossio
"Ironically wokeness, a thing that's supposed to help women gain agency actually makes it so female characters all have to be flat boring uninteresting two-dimensional cardboard cutouts."
"Would you rather read your no TP with all your favorite tropes and perfect characterization or your OTP with tropes you despise and inconsistent characterization?"
"Daniel Bryan threatening to make the WWE Championship in his own image with hemp material."
"I felt Nora worked better as the woman in the ice eternally beautiful, much desired but never attainable."
"Derek Mears as Jason... is the most badass scary intense brutal Jason in any of the Friday the 13th movies."
"The best Spider-Man performance we've ever gotten."
"This represents God as the bad guy in the situation and Michael Todd as the distinctly good guy."
"This is the best on-screen representation of Spider-Man for sure."
"I always, I want them to do Venom or Carnage correct, right? Yeah, you have to, I do think it's important to do the horror aspect of them correct."
"Either way, the tone of this whole DLC so far is a little off-putting because when Leliana tells you of the exploits of the minstrel spies of Orlais... the way that she describes the group is with deadly efficiency."
"Tom Cruise brought the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt to life in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's novel 'Interview with the Vampire.'"
"There can be incredible value in specificity when it comes to depicting a character's identity."
"There's no super villain quite like Thanos the Mad Titan."
"They also portrayed villains have a purpose and a point."
"Edward's like, 'Oh you hate cold wet things? Then I've got some bad news for you about the temperature and moisture level of my undead vampire (bleep).'"
"This is the first Joker that looks severely mentally unstable and actually scares me."
"Ganondorf looks more menacing here, like a no BS dude."
"Robert Downey jr. zhh interpretation of Tony Stark is one of the most highly successful interpretations of a comic book character to the big screen."
"Roxy was flying high, baby! She walked into that Helen Willis role and stole the show."
"Sonic Adventure is where, more faithfully than the classics, the original intentions that people give it credit for."
"There's so much potential there, and I think she captures the Supergirl part of it."
"Hoffman is just straight up a super villain in this one."
"Aquaman needs to be a film that is really kind of a representation of how we would see him."
"Vader thank goodness. Jedi should be doing stuff like this far more often."
"Kujo Sara is a fearless warrior and a formidable leader."
"Birdie Carville had the precise diction and menacing stature to bring Trunchbull to life."
"The MCU Avengers are some of the greatest examples of how to translate characters from the page to the screen."
"It's the most man thing. There's so much character in that dialogue."
"One of the best scene stealers from the first Guardians of the Galaxy."
"I'm Ron Swanson... Lagavulin 16, what can you say?"
"Hickman's portrayal of Reed and the inherent issue of his character are carried over to his reuniting with Susan."
"Negative one brings all that personality to the ring."
"Glenn Close was matching what the character was in the '60s film."
"Jabari Banks as Will is a revelation, he reproduces certain ticks and inflections and body movements and subtle details that the real Will Smith did naturally."
"The MCU Ant-Man movies smartly made it so Hank Pym kept his edge and his arrogance but didn't come with the dramatic weight his comic character had to suffer through."
"Sora was always a young and headstrong fellow, but they’ve now taken that to mean that he goes WOOOWWWW over like, everything he sees."
"When you see this character and when you see how Jason Momoa is gonna play this guy, it's gonna be amazing."
"That's some good Bruce Wayne, as far as I'm concerned." - Praise for Bruce Wayne's portrayal.
"I've never seen a character embody sheer emptiness on screen better than Kendall in this one season."
"I thought Far From Home did the character of Mysterio justice and nailed it."
"Best Star Wars anything in ages. Also, can we talk about how incredible Luke looks now? They improved the effect a thousand percent. Just speechless overall."
"She is an absolute pure murderer, uh, we love that for her, that is her goal, that is a dream and who are we to take that away from her."
"Fat Tony is portrayed as the ominous leader of the Springfield mob."
"I started to impress a more intellectual, wiser Geralt."
"I dearly hope that he's playing a madman on television... if he's really serious, we're really screwed."
"The ensemble cast deserves a round of applause, but Jackman reaffirms his embodiment of Wolverine, though he steps back from being the usual central action figure, a change that works surprisingly well."
"Lady Dimitrescu is legitimately scary, and that's a really, really good thing for a villain."
"They threw it in there because it'd be like oh haha it's funny but it's not like and what we're supposed to take from this is that Iro is sexually predatory because he's not anywhere um yeah."
"John Goodman as Fred Flintstone in the Flintstones movie is the best Fred Flintstone."
"Voice acting in Hell of a Boss: Brandon Rogers nails Blitz's character."
"Oh, I love it. Yeah, it's really cool. It's a cool vibe and it's a little more dark. Well, I don't know, I think all of our characters are just a little more like less heroic."
"The casting for the whole gang and even Rowan Atkinson as the villain was pretty much perfect..."
"Janessa Grant is so good at Faith. So sweet innocent one moment, a channel of Joseph's hauntedness the next."
"Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise is having fun and he's kind of funny sometimes."
"The second issue of the book quickly establishes that Amy is still all googly-eyed for Sonic the Hedgehog and is terrifyingly effective with a hammer."
"Carol Burnett does such an amazing job portraying Hannigan as a desperate lonely sassy drunk that you can't help but love and feel sorry for her."
"I love the way they handled old Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond."
"It's a great character, a fun character to play."
"Enola Holmes: Millie Bobby Brown plays Sherlock's fourteen-year-old sibling who's every bit as adept at solving mysteries."
"Stargirl: Rising star Grace VanderWaal plays Stargirl Caraway, a beacon of light in a bleak sky."
"Neil Patrick Harris's performance as Count Olaf is also a bit more consistent with the show steaming."
"The Dark Knight holds this near unreachable status."
"Aquaman basically spends the whole movie being a cool guy who does cool things."
"The app BitLife included Amber Heard as an answer to a question of who could be considered creepy and manipulative."
"That's the Batman I always thought we'd never see on screen."
"So you want to do a movie about women... make them sly and manipulative, people are going to be all down for it."
"My favorite detail was how we got Liz's g1 makeup on point."
"Robert had Robert England not portrayed Freddy Krueger I don't think that we would be doing a movie review right now."
"He still pulled off the feeling of a sniper in his own convoluted sort of way."
"Depp nearly got fired from the role of Jack Sparrow because he was playing him 'too drunk and gay,' according to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner."
"From the very first moment you see Rose DeWitt Bukater, you're instantly made aware of her class."
"House of the Wolfman, this Wolfman looks wonderful, especially in this classic black and white render. He's tough and the movement on all fours is great."
"There's a third guy. And I think a good the best Batman's play all three."
"He does a great job creating distinct physicalities and identities for both Bruce and for Batman."
"Ashley Johnson's just so good in the scene just a reminder that, you know, she did both voice and play Ellie in the games."
"David Scully's work as Johnson is nothing short of iconic."
"The Primordial character was pure eldritch horror."
"Maybe Steve Downs ends up being Halo's version of Ian McKellen and just never stops acting."
"Lily Rabe can do no wrong with this character."
"As you wish. I'm a simple man making his way through the galaxy like my father before me."
"Being Batman on screen transcended concepts such as chemistry or simple acting ability."
"Mustafa Shakir is Jet Black. It's straight up uncanny how close his interpretation of the character is to Beau Billingsly's."
"Chris Messina who plays Michael Jordan's agent, he screams his way through the entire movie which could be too over the top but you understand that this is the character that he needs to play."
"I'm sure it'll be fine, but I just want them to do the butchered Italian accent for these characters because that's what the characters do."
"Having both Godzilla and Destoroyah be metaphors for man’s scientific overreach and capacity for destruction adds layers here, but the movie never loses sight of these two kaiju as living creatures."
"Roman Reigns portray one of the more over characters in modern WWE history."
"I think any character that you play you have to be sympathetic towards."
"You need an actor of Oscar caliber who can portray in a realistic believable way the insanity and evil of the man."
"They've taken this to another level... for the most part they have completely nailed Joel and Ellie thus far."
"His dialogue and voice acting completely back up his voice actor. The late Renee oano is in my humble opinion one of the greatest actors of all time and he brings Mr House to life perfectly."
"Perry's portrayal of the sarcastic yet lovable character endeared him to audiences worldwide and earned him critical acclaim."
"Cheney became famous for his iconic portrayals of classic movie Monsters, particularly his role as Lawrence Talbot, The Wolf Man, in the Universal horror films of the 1940s."
"If anyone's gonna make that character work well, it will be Sonic Fox."
"They had to make Michael Peterson completely unlikable, to make the jury hate him."
"Chris Hemsworth now owns this role, he and after 'Thor: Ragnarok,' Thor: Ragnarok Hemsworth has talked about this before."
"Russell Crowe as Zeus, if there is a diamond in this, to me it's Russell Crowe Zeus."
"The concept of a female Bond flick was obsolete by Atomic Blonde. What do you think? No, I think Atomic Blonde proved that it can work if it's properly handled."
"Adam Driver added so much to this character that even people who hate the sequels kinda like him."
"She's willing to talk this out with him, and even when Isaac refuses...she doesn't shoot anyone or even move because she doesn't want to kill any of the WLF."
"Andy embraced the persona of a chauvinist who, as part of his stand-up comedy act, would talk down to women and claim they were only good for cooking, cleaning, and making babies."
"It seemed like the only sane, sensible, and decent person with any sense of self-preservation on 'Soap' was Benson DuBois, the highly intelligent and sarcastic cook and butler for the well-off Tate family - played by Robert Guillaume."
"I think his Freddy is a lot more scary... it feels a lot more grounded in reality."
"They all were very unique and each actor embodied their characters so well."
"It always looked like a person in a duck suit."
"The Wonder Woman of Patty Jenkins and the Wonder Woman of the Snyderverse are two completely different Wonder Women."
"This is exactly the Shazam that we wanted to see."
"I loved it! ... seeing them fight Krang though, I think that's gonna be very, very cool. It's gonna be pretty sweet."
"Paul Nakauchi, the voice of Hanzo, is also the voice of Malthael, the former Archangel of Wisdom in Blizzard's Diablo series."
"The music absolutely SLAPS, the graphics are respectable, and The Joker isn’t just a sprite to beat up; he really does act like The Joker."
"Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker in the Dark Knight... just one of the best performances in all of cinema period."
"Comedy taught Craig Mason how to tell the stories of flawed people."
"You've got to be willing to look a little nuts when you're pretending to be a seven-foot-tall monster who eats people's heads." - Tom Hardy
"This is a parody thing, she's supposed to mimic how ridiculous Lara Croft is dressed."
"Disney's fat villains include but not limited to Ursula The Little Mermaid the Queen of Hearts Alice in Wonderland Governor Ratcliffe Pocahontas Lawrence The Princess and the Frog and Pete the Mickey Mouse Universe."
"This amazing image of Min, Marty, and Finn has to be the defining image of the entire 'Islands' miniseries."
"Jonathan is a flawed human being who's playing Jesus, and one of the things that makes him so effective as Jesus is the humility of being willing to make yourself a broken vessel."
"Tom Holland as Spider-Man, he's never been more Spider-Man in this one, I never connected with them more than this one."
"Jensen Ackles... plays Batman here to perfection and is clearly the right choice for the role."
"A tiefling paladin who is seeking to redeem themselves."
"Adam would just be screaming from the boughs of his very Soul eternally angry and frustrated."
"Try different poses and try different silhouettes."
"Faye's actual introduction in Netflix Bebop is against the eco-terrorists."
"They're trying to make these characters a lot more virtuous than they actually are."
"I kind of wish Desmond Llewellyn had come out and he'd been like, 'Uh, in this game you're going to play as Q during the movie Tomorrow Never Dies.' So it's just him slowly like walking to the Avis renter car place where he gives Bond the car."
"They ruined the Mandarin character when they really shouldn't have, like they wanted to have a villain in Guy Pearce who was humiliated by Tony Stark back in his jerk days only to come at him now that he's a hero."
"Now here's the big question that often divides people: Do you think the MCU has ruined the Peter Parker character by making him basically Iron Man junior or do you think that's what the character needed?"
"I enjoy how different Mariposa is from Alina and it's always nice to see a book lover portrayed in a film in a way that isn't nerdy."
"Frank Grillo is returning for Election Year reprising his role as Sergeant Leo Barnes..."
"I felt so bad for Windon when I saw him, like, constantly in that animation."
"I thought he, the iteration of Reed Richards they gave us was really good. I thought it resonated with me, I liked it a lot."
"Margot Robbie is Barbie she is Barbie and she is the movie Barbie."
"The Kratos of God of War Ragnarok is a man yearning for peace, unflinching in his refusal to compromise when it comes to the integrity and well-being of those he loves."
"This version of Velma dress up as Ruth Bader Ginsburg which feels incredibly on brand for the character."
"His Joker is the Joker or at least a metric to judge all other actors who dare to put on the clown paint and let's just say it's a bar very few actors are capable of clearing."
"A great actor can keep us from ever even seeing them at all, rather we get to witness a fully realized character experiencing a reality foreign to our own."
"By far the best new character is Bellatrix Lestrange, the Death Eater played by Helena Bonham Carter."
"Netflix does this over and over and over again they love a villain is actually the hero story."
"He's good, Buzz Lightyear makeup from Ottawa."
"It's absolutely true that Hollywood took a while to portray female characters with honesty."
"Wyatt is back as the demented host of Firefly funhouse."
"Every time your hell diver lands they sound so optimistic."
"He’s able to communicate menace, vulnerability, whimsy and cynicism with just a few words and a look."
"'In My Big Fat Greek Bob,' Dean Dixon is voiced by Jonathan Katz, who also voices Dr. Katz in Loren Bouchard's first series."
"This is the real deal shit, this is how we want to see them."
"I've always been a character actor I'm always looking at each part that I get in saying who is he well I guess it's not me with a different name who is this."
"Maggie Smith is Professor McGonagall. Fight me."
"This Tom Ellis dude playing this character is just outrageously entertaining to watch."
"This game did something revolutionary, depicted a character as human, despite his immoral actions."
"She towers above this film in the way Ledger towered above Dark Knight; this for me is all about Priyanka."
"She makes no apologies about who she is; that scene where she takes all the puppies, it's priceless."
"It's showing that bad people don't always go around announcing how evil they are."
"Metroid Dread brought me back in, made Samus a badass again."
"Neil Patrick Harris played Spider-Man in a unique phase of his career."
"Broly exists in this form to cause as much damage as possible without reason."
"Representation should be incidental to the character and not the central like the Sun to the solar system if you get one saying."
"He captures the steely optimism and determination of Steve Rogers from the first few scenes."
"Techno Blade is a paragon of honesty and virtue."
"I think this is the most faithful true Superman you can make."
"They did this so incredibly well, blending both of these together, and they did it in such a way that even if you never saw the 1987 cartoon you could still appreciate them as characters."
"When we're watching 'Asteroid City,' what we're really watching is Jason Schwartzman playing Jones Hall, playing Augie Steenbeck."
"Marshall Ali in the movie Moonlight... he just totally subverted what everybody thought this character would be."
"Hawkeye, insanely well done. When they put on the costumes, I geeked out."
"Candyman is so horrifying to me. Tony Todd is just so menacing, so scary."
"You know what they'll never [__] do it because those movies were too fun and Venom's got to be dark and gritty."
"She's badass, Mila Jovovich from 'Fifth Element' and all the 'Resident Evil' films. She's fast as fuck, bioenhanced and gnarly."
"Villains are always shown Larger than Life, but reality is hero is a hero, villain is a villain."
"Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts embodied Cloud's darkness."
"Sephiroth showed no signs of physical exertion in Advent Children."
"It's such an incredible journey playing Anakin Skywalker."
"Fantastic performance by the mean man barbarino."
"Kari Hiroyuki Tagawa would play sadistic sorcerer Shang Tsung."
"This Batman is not going to be like that. He can see ten steps ahead, he can predict every possible scenario, and he is always prepared."