| 单词 | antihero |
| 例句 | The film’s director, Scott Cooper, gives Mr. Bulger some of his luster back, portraying him as a charismatic antihero, even as he “does terrible, unforgivable things,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z The actual drama is a hero’s journey that unpeels itself as an antihero’s journey, to indifferent effect. ‘Boiling Point’ Review: The Worst Night in the Life of a Restaurant 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The real-life Jordan Belfort, the antihero of “The Wolf of Wall Street,” played in the film by Leonardo diCaprio, made an appearance at the Ziegfeld Theater premiere on Tuesday, along with his family. The Carpetbagger: Awkward Family Moments at the ‘Wolf’ Premiere 2013-12-19T17:52:01Z The result was roles like his Oscar-nominated turn as Ron Woodroof in “Dallas Buyers Club,” an antihero, in Mr. McConaughey’s view, who is not necessarily a sympathetic figure but a fun one to play. The Carpetbagger: Video: Matthew McConaughey, Chest-Thumper 2014-02-06T13:30:38Z We sure messed that up, Eli ruefully observes as the uneasy antiheroes of “The Sisters Brothers” are swallowed up by darkness. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Howard said he was not afraid to play a TV antihero in the vein of Tony Soprano or Don Draper. The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The actor’s facility with such roles helps explain his current popularity in an era of television that, though a ways past the heyday of Tony Soprano and Walter White, still loves its antiheroes. Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z No longer unconventional, however, the antihero is 10 a penny, from The Blacklist to Preacher to Narcos. Breaking Bad: 10 years on, TV is still in Walter White's shadow 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z After the clock caper, you might think that we’ve learned the ground rules for this antihero show. The Americans Watch: Honey, I Forgot to Duck 2013-02-21T14:29:25Z Jimmy Corkhill is one of the great antiheroes of our time. Watch television with Fred Macpherson 2012-07-06T23:05:00Z Mr. Costner’s antihero picks fights with preachers, Native American leaders and even his children to preserve his power and land. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘Brockmire’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z The second season of “Daredevil” arrived on Netflix on Friday less than a year after Season 1, but it already feels as if it’s falling behind in the Marvel antihero race. In ‘Daredevil,’ on Netflix, the Punisher Stirs Up the Gangs 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z It was his performance in the 1969 film “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,” a grueling existentialist drama directed by Sydney Pollack, that established him as one of the era’s more intriguing antiheroes. Michael Sarrazin, Actor, Dies at 70 2011-04-20T10:37:38Z They use it to sell everything from splashy popcorn blockbusters with robot villains to artsy thinky indie dramas with robot antiheroes. Gather around, screwed millennials: You must see this 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Another baddie: which notorious antihero works as an investment banker at Wall Street company Pierce and Pierce, in a novel published in 1991? Quiz: Banking in literature 2011-01-11T16:17:46Z “Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?” asks Phoenix’s antihero near the start of the film. Send in the crowns: in trumping Venice competition, Joker begins grand slam | Xan Brooks 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Now, the dark and brooding antihero is back and ready for revenge in his own solo spinoff show, aptly titled The Punisher. Netflix Debuts Bloody Trailer for 'Marvel's The Punisher 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z MacGowan lacked the requisite eye patch, but his gruff delivery, long black coat, incoherent banter and chain smoking cast him as a likeable antihero on the level of Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow character. Pogues, MacGowan bid a gruff, stomping farewell 2011-03-04T14:46:29Z Ciro is about as anti as TV antiheroes get, and in Season 2, he’s even more ruthless and violent. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z More recent antiheroes Steve and Becky continue to follow in those footsteps as this latest episode blesses the viewer with yet another insight into their fruitless lives. Spooks 2010-10-04T05:45:00Z He postured as a TV antihero, the unpleasant guy it takes to get results in an unpleasant world. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z With a richer character to work with than the protagonists in the early films, Barrera does an effectively brooding job playing a tortured possible antihero. ‘Scream VI’ Review: Yes, Another Scary Movie 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z In it, our mostly lovable, flabby antihero spurns the advances of an equally lovable waitress. Louis C.K. is a boldly honest TV dad on 'Louie' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z We see it in the hypercompetent, murderous antiheroes of Breaking Bad and Dexter. This Charmless Man: The Anti-Antihero of The Jinx 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z With her earlier work, even her supporters conceded that the recurring antihero of Ms. Walker’s work — known as “the Negress” — had never had true control of her fate. Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z Did you feel like you had to present viewers with a hard and true antihero? 'Fargo' mastermind Noah Hawley makes stranger-than-fiction real 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z This novel’s first four sentences could also be its last four, and they put me in mind of the antiheroes in Jim Harrison’s fiction: The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was ‘Richard Pryor on Paper’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z In the comic-book-spawned worlds that, for better or worse, dominate popular culture, creators have tried to resurrect the antihero, to varying degrees of success. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z This season, however, “OITNB” goes beyond that central premise, by showing viewers that what has been most compelling about the antihero is not necessarily their propensity for evil, but their propensity for change. Pennsatucky’s redemption: How “Orange Is the New Black” pulled a reverse “Breaking Bad” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z It feels made up of pieces of other antihero dramas–a little Sopranos here, a little Brotherhood there, even a little Entourage around the edges. TV Weekend: Ray Donovan 2013-06-27T09:45:23Z She was an antihero in a twirly skirt, certain that she was meant to be an ingénue. Losing Her Mind: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Ends with Hope 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z That’s intentional, because the antihero is so often an avatar of traditional markers of masculinity. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Flanked by a black-clad band firing out Green Day's muscular, driven rock, the trio of antiheroes seek a purpose and come up short. American Idiot – review 2012-10-11T11:47:04Z "It redefined the network and paved the way for a new generation of antiheroes" on "Nurse Jackie," "Dexter," "Californication" and more. After 8 years, Showtime's 'Weeds' goes up in smoke 2012-09-15T15:34:09Z Leave aside Kevin’s snobbery, which the play implies is not just a charismatic antihero’s pose but an actual virtue shared by anyone smart and honest. Review: ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’ Sells Upward Mobility for Dummies 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But in the way it presents its characters, it’s much more on the model of a cable antihero drama than even Curb Your Enthusiasm. From Tony Soprano to Hannah Horvath: What Does a TV Show ?Want? You to Think of Its Characters? 2012-04-18T17:05:00Z Creators of terrible men like Walter White are stalked by the question of whether their antiheroes would or should die for their crimes as the end of their story approaches. S'all done: "Better Call Saul" closes with a journey through time and regret 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Compared with TV audiences in general, hip-hop fans “can have a different sort of attachment” to their favored characters, whether it is Kanan or the other antiheroes in “Power,” Mr. Jackson says. Under-the-Radar Crime Drama ‘Power’ Keeps Gaining Viewers 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z His writing and performance make Gino, especially, a sympathetic and interesting antihero who may deserve a better story than he gets. 'Unorganized Crime' a quirky mob-family melodrama 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The genre’s standard-bearers – Dirty Harry, Taxi Driver, even Death Wish – succeeded by presenting their main men as proper antiheroes, guys who roused and repelled in equal measure, not just badasses with a grievance. The Equalizer: why have Hollywood vigilantes gone soft? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Just a few years ago, at the height of the antihero craze, a prestige drama could seem a little fluffy if its protagonist was not an actual murderer. The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The antihero has been allowed to grow a heart, meaning Hollywood is no longer doing its vigilantes justice. The Equalizer: why have Hollywood vigilantes gone soft? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Although Johnson has played his fair share of good guys, he told the AP he has always been a fan of antiheroes, and he also named Black Adam as one of his favorite DC characters. Dwayne Johnson says he'll play DC superhero Shazam -- or his nemesis 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z On the one hand it’s by-the-book Prestige Television, a glossy study of self-destructive antiheroes, moral grey areas and the soul-blackening effects of power. All hail Billions – the smartest stupid show on TV 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z As the novel’s shadowy antihero describes the transaction between the search engine company and its users, “All who read us are read.” Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z He doesn’t pretend to be a hero or an antihero — just a young man alone, trying to get through life with some honest grace. Khalid Has Fresh Insecurities and a New Set of Musical Tricks on ‘Free Spirit’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “Skyler is more clearly portrayed I think in an unsympathetic manner than some of the other wives in antihero drama.” Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Published in the early 1990s, it arrived on the literary scene like a fireball, introducing us to an unforgettable group of antiheroes and their rises and falls in and around Leith. Read Your Way Through Edinburgh 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z "Jimi was an antihero," says Ridley, who won an Oscar for his "12 Years a Slave" screenplay. Rapper Andre Benjamin has a Jimi Hendrix experience 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z This recurring myth of the everyday antihero embodies a specific set of American values that play to our shared escapist impulses while simultaneously exposing the limits hard-wired into those dreams of criminal flight. Men behaving badly: how the white middle-class everyman became 2017's antihero 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z As well as letting you do something — run around, fly a helicopter, be the hero, be the antihero, whatever — they also let you be in the world, passively. Q. and A.: Rockstar’s Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto V 2012-11-10T01:05:01Z In one of the stranger twists in self-aggrandizement, Hollywood renders Americans as the antiheroes, which might seem odd given that Hollywood is America’s unofficial ministry of propaganda. Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views, Even in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z "Don't Breathe", a tense psychological horror-thriller, is expected to topple DC antiheroes "Suicide Squad" at the U.S. box office this weekend. Horror-thriller 'Don't Breathe' set to trump 'Suicide Squad' at the U.S. box office 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s almost like I was writing about a hero and I ended up writing about an antihero. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Eat Only When You’re Hungry’ 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z I never cared much for antiheroes, who always seem like whiny men who thought they had problems but really didn’t. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The more time you spend with your compromised antihero, the more you get to know their ways. Will Spiral become your new favourite Saturday night Euro cop drama? 2011-04-01T14:30:00Z I don’t mean mere antiheroes like Billy Bigelow, the “Carousel” carnival barker who sings gloriously about love yet hits his wife. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z These men imagine themselves to be regal antiheroes—to be the Vito or the Michael of their story. Of Course Roger Stone Thinks That He Lives in “The Godfather” 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Their antihero, Marty Byrde, meets all the criteria, and as with Walter White, his anger is fueled by a sense of unkept American promises. Review: Netflix Is in the Woods With ‘Ozark’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s hard to sell an antihero; it’s even harder to sell one that’s been living in the headlines. Almost Infamous: 10 Biopics With Memorable Antiheroes 2013-10-23T09:45:20Z In the midst of the moral murk that constitutes our antihero’s soul, it’s helpful to have axiomatic arrows to follow. He Tried to Change the System, Then Became It 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z When the teenage Morris Bellamy reads the first two books, he falls in love with their antihero, Jimmy Gold, “an American icon of despair in a land of plenty.” Book World: ‘Finders Keepers’ by Stephen King 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Directed by David Ayer and based on the DC comic about a gang of antiheroes co-opted by the US government, Suicide Squad might be more raw, more vicious than your average do-gooder superhero story. The 75 films we're most excited about in 2016 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The closing Wake, an intensely moving reflection on the death of Hospice's antihero, is a gorgeous electro-eulogy and a reminder that the Antlers have recorded a magnificent debut album. The Antlers 2010-05-23T21:15:00Z When Breaking Bad was winding down I felt like everyone wanted to know where the female antiheroes were, where the female Tony Soprano was. Lucy Lawless Explains Why 'Salem' Is a New Kind of TV Horror 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z “Mrs. America” paints its leading lady not as a villain but a plausible female version of that hoariest of contemporary TV conventions: the antihero. ‘Mrs. America’ Depicts a Different Kind of Feminist: The Anti- Kind 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z On a July morning Reynolds woke up to a social media storm: test footage he’d made since had been leaked and comic-book geeks were going wild for his incarnation of the film’s antihero. Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Part of the problem might be that unlike James Gandolfini or Bryan Cranston in earlier iterations, he has to play the criminal antihero with an overlay of racially determined pride and guilt. Review: A New Godfather, in Harlem This Time 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Your books seem to thrive on the presence of an antihero. ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z In true 19th-century fashion, “Danton’s Death” is a clash between “great men,” heroes and antiheroes, who frequently launch into lyrical monologues about blood and death. Review: A Far-From-Revolutionary ‘Danton’s Death’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z But it’s fair to say the watershed for TV antiheroes was in 1999, with the debut of The Sopranos. From Tony Soprano to Hannah Horvath: What Does a TV Show ?Want? You to Think of Its Characters? 2012-04-18T17:05:00Z Mr. Drastal is covered in green fur, the look that has come to define the holiday antihero originally created by Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. How the Sexy Grinch Spiced Up Christmas 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z When the series began two years ago, it was another start-up chasing a trend — in this case, the cable-TV antihero. Review: ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Time-Travels to Silicon Valley’s Dawn 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z What is the role of an antihero such as the Punisher in an American society which is experiencing such very dark and troubling times? Why the Punisher is more relatable than Superman: "Anger is an easier feeling" 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z You play as either of the three antihero officers. Game On: 'Phineas and Ferb' simple fun; 'Juarez' misses mark 2011-08-09T20:00:05Z The three principal antiheroes of 21st-century cable television inhabit different regions in the kingdom of modern capitalism. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z And with them goes the longstanding comic-book archetype meant to split the difference: the antihero. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z These are not antiheroes in the cable television, charismatic bad-boy sense of the term. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z And just for good measure, it stars a handsome mess of an antihero who is awful in his personal life, great at his job and has a taste for hookers and mind-altering substances. The Knick: scalpel-sharp second season cuts away at Mad Men's status 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z And it's about an antihero that kills and gets killed by the police. 'Weighty' role is a Robert De Niro dream come true for actor Vincent Cassel in 'Mesrine: Killer Instinct' 2010-08-25T21:31:00Z With Ned out of the picture, there are a lot of interesting characters in Game of Thrones, and Tyrion makes a fascinating antihero. Game of Thrones Watch: A Trick, A Shadow on a Wall 2012-04-16T10:40:01Z There’s the classic rumbling, murmuring Texan antihero that you’d expect, but there’s also a full-blooded southern preacher in there too. Brosnan's back! Why we should celebrate the shouty former Bond's return 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z I’m sick of antiheroes and I don’t want to wind up depressed or disillusioned. What to Watch This Week: Smart, Non-Violent TV 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Campos invites this sort of armchair analysis of his antihero, but he doesn’t go much deeper than that. ‘Simon Killer’: Psychopath’s life takes a dark turn 2013-05-02T21:20:37Z The opera has lost its 20-minute opening scene, which sped through the early life of its desperately striving antihero, Clyde Griffiths. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Even more than “The Asphalt Jungle,” “Blue Collar” is a crime movie about human endeavor, recasting heist-film antiheroes as working-class heroes. It?s All About a Dishonest Day?s Work 2010-10-01T04:19:00Z Are nine-year-old “Breaking Bad” episodes not satisfying your hunger for angry, middle-aged, white male antiheroes? Review: Netflix Is in the Woods With ‘Ozark’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z And he knows his way around iambic pentameter, having portrayed several Shakespearean heroes and antiheroes on stage and screen. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s a film about characters behaving badly, and the audience is kind of positioned to root for the antiheroes. "Destroyer" director Karyn Kusama: "I’m keeping a smile on my face and seething inside" 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Sam Peckinpah’s Wild Bunch predicted a future of revisionist westerns, full of grizzled antiheroes, great spasms of stylized violence, and the messy inevitability of unhappy endings. True Grit at 50: the throwback western that gave John Wayne his only Oscar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Literalists like to parse this stuff under the presumption that their druggy antihero is setting himself up for redemption, but Future’s performative misery doesn’t establish a legible narrative so much as an ineffable mood. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Unlike the eventually messy antihero of Martin Scorsese’s movie, Clean, seeking sober redemption after a tragic and criminal past, is actually adept at meting out violence. ‘Clean’ Review: Taking Out the Trash 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z I was thinking of “The Great Santini,” or that kind of classic antihero. Paul and Justin Theroux on Eccentric Patriarchs and ‘The Mosquito Coast’ 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z His character, Mr. Stevenson told The Oklahoman, was supposed to be not a hero but an antihero. Ray Stevenson, Actor in ‘Thor’ and Other Films, Dies at 58 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Much like Paul Newman’s antihero in “Hud,” a favorite of his, these are men who “walk in a straight line all the way to the end of the picture — no placation, no pandering,” he said. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z Rock’s antihero had become, against all expectations, a rock hero. Music Review: At Terminal 5, Public Image Ltd. Rages Anew 2010-05-19T22:32:00Z Boardwalk Empire is not the only show ever to kill its primary antihero in the finale, but the bluntness with which it did so speaks volumes. But did he die? TV's best and worst endings since The Sopranos 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z In place of demigods and antiheroes, women were his preferred orbit. In These Ousmane Sembène Films, Women Are Revolutionaries 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z She’s a classic antihero — fundamentally deranged, objectively appalling, lawless, violent and deceitful, but fiercely loved by millions of readers because she has good reasons for the way she is and a heart of gold. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ by David Lagercrantz 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z His movies are such a load off from the usual antiheroes navigating life-or-death scenarios. Should you watch Cameron Crowe’s TV show ‘Roadies’? Let’s talk it out. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Mortality resides in the show not as mystery fodder or a device to amplify an antihero's complexity but as a simple fact of life. The lesson of "Six Feet Under," 20 years later: "We're not really as in control as we all think" 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Weyman actually matched or even surpassed “A Gentleman of France,” in 1894’s “Under the Red Robe,” which features a highly ambivalent antihero, the 17th-century gambler and swordsman nicknamed The Black Death. Review | Flashing blades, secret passages, mistaken identities: ‘A Gentleman of France’ is a classic adventure tale 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z There are signs here that the antihero element of the character may shift to the front as never before on the big screen, with Jackman himself describing the new Wolverine as a "monster". The Wolverine sharpens claws to take on Japanese culture 2013-07-05T12:04:00Z “He was comics’ first antihero,” Mark Waid, a veteran comic book writer and editor, wrote in an email interview. The Sub-Mariner Turns 80. He’s Still Super. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z It’s a kind of antihero slash protagonist thing that I think women really need right now. Sam Rockwell on His Secret Past as a Really Bad Break Dancer 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z It will be a race almost impossible to call with the "Fargo" antiheroes going up against Ruffalo's ferocious turn in the high-profile "Heart," the likely TV movie Emmy winner. A look at the Emmy races for movies, miniseries, talk shows and more 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Wahlberg, on the other hand, might seem an unusual actor to portray Case, the novel's antihero protagonist. Will Liam Neeson and Mark Wahlberg be plugging into Vincenzo Natali's Neuromancer? 2012-08-02T15:00:00Z But this recent shift from lone female antihero to the angry sisterhood offers something potentially even more subversive: a focus on female empowerment, not female suffering. Mad women: how angry sisterhood is taking over the small screen 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The current 007 and Bourne franchises celebrate tortured antiheroes who are eager to throw down. Guy Ritchie Cracks the Spy Genre with 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The Shield’s outstanding finale left its antihero/villain, Vic Mackey, alive and chained to a desk, presumably to ponder his crimes forever. Breaking Bad Watch: The Iceman Cometh 2013-09-23T04:26:21Z This concept extends beyond fantasy TV to many of the popular antihero dramas of the day. Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z As Mantel painted him, Cromwell is a classic 21st-century TV antihero 500 years before his time: both ruthless and thoughtful, conniving yet loyal, he’s a little Frank Underwood, a little Olivia Pope, a little Littlefinger. Review: Wolf Hall Gives Us an Antihero for All Seasons 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The result is a kind of prestige-TV version of Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil, in which fascist leaders are shown to be not über-villains but yet another version of the complex cable-drama antihero. Philip K. Dick’s Intellectual Vision for Living in a Fascist America 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Seeing so many Paul Newman movies growing up, this American antihero, he spent a lifetime pursuing this character. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The show’s Jimmy is a much-needed note of dissonance: the actually pathetic antihero. The best antihero now isn’t a badass: “Better Call Saul” is the brilliant, pathetic counterpart to prestige TV’s bold angry men 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “This is the Raskolnikov apartment,” she said, referring to the antihero of “Crime and Punishment.” Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Now, Gotham City is still teeming with antiheroes who posses potent combinations of brains, combat skills and total disregard for humanity. "Birds of Prey" is a fantabulous, feminist grenade 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Gibney is one of the most prolific -makers of today, and his films often take the perspective of the victim or antihero. WikiLeaks documentary: 'Julian Assange wanted $1m' 2013-07-09T18:00:04Z The movie pays homage to the French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who specialized in stark crime stories, suffused with ennui and populated by emotionally distant antiheroes. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z By process of accumulated detail, "Trouble Boys" aims for the heart of the Replacements' self-fulfilling self-destruction, what turned them into hometown antiheroes. The Replacements' story is told bottle by bottle, song by song, in the new book 'Trouble Boys' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Just like Marxism, the ideology of The Americans is focused the common man, not one exemplary antihero whose conflict we’re supposed to be conflicted about. The Americans: why you should be watching TV's best drama 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Guy is our antihero, “haunted,” as he later describes it, by women. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Its violent imagery, often displaying corpses artfully arranged and waiting to be eaten by the eponymous antihero, pushed the envelope of what is permissible on network TV. Hannibal cancelled by NBC after ratings slump 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Tales of angsty alpha males who see the light are a cinematic sacred cow, yet lacking in clarity of vision or a cohesive world, “The Beta Test” comes out looking as confused as its antihero. ‘The Beta Test’ Review: Paranoia in Hollywood 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But antihero dramas and cringe comedies became so widespread that they developed their own clichés, just like the older, moralistic shows they reacted against. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z That said, it looks like the show will soften the edges of this DC antihero a bit. Watch the official trailer for "Peacemaker" on HBO Max 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The five teen protagonists are neither heroes nor antiheroes: They are "troubled youths" hit by lightning while performing community service. "The Misfits:" British superheroes just want to be teens 2011-08-11T22:12:00Z Are antiheroes more fun to write than heroes? Why the Punisher is more relatable than Superman: "Anger is an easier feeling" 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z What then is the role of the antihero in this social and political moment? Why the Punisher is more relatable than Superman: "Anger is an easier feeling" 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The antiheroes, defined by their exercise of power rather than the quality of their relationships, almost never have to say they’re sorry. When the Heroine Is Less Than Perfect 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z In the last half century, authors and showrunners have prepared the way for a drama like “Moriarty,” questioning Holmes’s habits and attitudes, rendering him as a kind of antihero. The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z My favorite antihero is Rinehart in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and my favorite villain is Iago in Shakespeare’s “Othello.” Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The show takes place six years before Goodman meets Breaking Bad antihero Walter White, during a time when Goodman went by the name Jimmy McGill. The New Teaser for "Better Call Saul" Reminds Us That Cheaper is Better 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Second place receives a three-count-’em-three genuine 1970s copies of “The Losers,” a series of comic books about World War II antiheroes that, by the Vietnam era, had taken an antiwar perspective. Style Invitational: That movie is SO about you — ‘secret inspirations’ for films 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Three years later, “Hamilton” is a huge hit, and Mr. Odom, 34, is its ambitious antihero. A ‘Hamilton’ Star’s Story: How Leslie Odom Jr. Became Aaron Burr, Sir 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z That says something about our attraction to charismatic antiheroes. ‘Billions’ shows why some of us root for the rich and scandalous 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The antihero drama genre has become so threadbare of late that new angles are hard to come by. The one with the other TV show: ranking the Friends cast's next steps 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Networks are still going to make all those antihero and serial killer shows! Misogynist Online Abuse Is Everyone's Problem--Men Included 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z His antiheroes are gangsters, junkies and cops, living on the margins in the heart of Manhattan. Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins' 2010-08-05T20:29:00Z So when I tell you that Ro Boddie, as Richard, lacks the charisma of a scheming antihero who seeks to draw us into his confidence — well, he may grow more comfortable in the role. Review: In ‘Seize the King,’ ‘Richard III’ Goes to Harlem 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z And the moment we think the film’s tone might shift toward the sincere, our antihero is right back to his partying ways. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘My Favorite Shapes’ and ‘The Beach Bum’ 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z One of the other hallmarks of feminist-minded TV has been the antihero. Take that, patriarchy! The horrific, cack-handed 'feminism' of Netflix's Girlboss 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z He is both hero and antihero, a victim and a vigilante. "Clean" star Adrien Brody talks "Succession" & daily injustice: "There is a lot to be angry about" 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z And yet, to zero in entirely on Spidey’s absence from the story, at least in the case of Morbius, would be to ignore the rich and fascinating history behind the birth of the vampire-like antihero. With its new 'Spidey-verse', can Sony triumph as the anti-Marvel? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z There are many ways in which Jimmy McGill’s story in “Better Call Saul” is a lot like those antiheroes who created the landscape of prestige television. The best antihero now isn’t a badass: “Better Call Saul” is the brilliant, pathetic counterpart to prestige TV’s bold angry men 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Simpson almost certainly wouldn’t be thinking, let alone saying this, about a male antihero. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 5: I’ve Seen Heroes 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z At the end of “The Sympathizer,” the antihero is tortured. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Prizewinning Author of ‘The Sympathizer,’ Still Wrestles With ‘Apocalypse Now’ 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The book’s narrator set the pattern for all of Houellebecq’s antiheroes: depressed, misanthropic men who, precisely because they cannot achieve romantic or sexual satisfaction, believe that sex is the most important thing in life. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The film-noir universe isn't pretty, with antiheroes who have chips on their shoulders, scores to settle and beautiful but duplicitous women who wrap them around their little fingers. Film-noir classics released on DVD by Warner Home Video 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z Even when I’m the hero, I want to be the antihero—it’s more fun. Will "Avengement" be a breakthrough movie for fan favorite Scott Adkins? 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Pope was a rare female antihero in a Tom Ford power suit. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Police officers in Detroit have been spotted wearing the skull insignia of the Marvel antihero the Punisher, and squads in Minnesota have watched Disney’s “Zootopia” as part of their anti-bias training. The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z “Venom” is one of several recent films and TV series that make the antihero into a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure, caught between his worst inclinations and best intentions. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Holstein conceived the show in 2010, “in the middle of all of the antihero shows,” he said, referencing “The Sopranos” and “Breaking Bad.” A wave of recent TV series focus on child deaths. Is it all too morbid — or a sign of our times? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z You do convince as a noir antihero and playing privileged tough guys, which is far removed from your period films. Jonathan Rhys Meyers on being a bold boy playing amoral men: "Nobility can be a little bit tedious" 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Viewers of the British series may expect that punishment of some kind awaits our American antihero, but perhaps more seasons like this new one are justice enough for Underwood. It’s Time for “House of Cards” to Come Crashing Down 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z From the dawn of “The Sopranos” through the rise of Netflix, acclaimed antihero dramas have focused on bad people getting worse or good people going bad. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Though Flynn's fortunes had faded from his heights as Sherwood Forest's favorite antihero, Robin Hood, the actor's death sent the tabloids scrambling to splash every scrap of information across their covers. Late-in-life Errol Flynn leers in 'The Last of Robin Hood' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The show’s antihero, Macheath, is a criminal among a rogue’s gallery of friends and business acquaintances relishing in the corruption and greed of 19th-century England, but with a wink to pre-fascist Germany. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z That poses challenges in an entertainment landscape full of antiheroes and rule-breaking protagonists. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Satire feeds on winners, on antiheroes who succeed. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z Mr. McDonagh wanted to create a hero, not an antihero, because it felt like more of a challenge. John Michael McDonagh Carves His Own Niche With ‘Calvary’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Those two feelings are the hallmarks of any competent antihero drama, the mechanisms that force the audience to confront their own identification with a bad person. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z They are antiheroes, displaying in plain view the darkness of female insecurity. How "Jersey Shore" turned sinister 2011-03-24T17:29:00Z It’s not worried about antiheroes and grittiness and darkness like so many cable dramas. Jane the Virgin: soapy, smart and sexy 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He is, in short, the kind of antihero Ellroy would have otherwise had to invent, instead of simply reinvent. Review | James Ellroy’s new novel is an unabashedly retro tale of Hollywood’s sordid side 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z To me, Daemon is the antihero of this story. Ryan Condal Was Surprised People Liked ‘House of the Dragon’ So Quickly 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z These women are antiheroes and yet they are sympathetic and layered at the same time. Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer on the 'UnREAL' Season Finale 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z So much of cable TV isn’t just made by but about so-called “difficult men,” with shows that plumb the complicated souls of powerful antiheroes. From Daenerys to Cersei, last night’s episode proved it’s the women who make “Game of Thrones” 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z While many prestige dramas, before and since, focused on a charismatic antihero, or at least a tight ensemble, The Wire didn’t have a central character unless you count Baltimore itself. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z With its gorgeous panoramic shots of contemporary London and an upscale orchestral soundtrack by Dario Marianelli, “Redemption” is a lot like its antihero in his borrowed wardrobe. Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z Basically, Dickens's curmudgeonly antihero considers Christmas a financial and emotional scam on a global scale — a humbug any way you slice it. What does "Bah, humbug!" actually mean? 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z “He’s an avatar for the archetype of the 20th century antihero escapee from the annals of the 20th century canon of literature,” explained Ashley. Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z And remember: The smoldering antihero of “Mad Men” was born Richard Whitman! Jon Hamm gives his voice to Walt Whitman’s long-lost novel 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z As his videos demonstrate, they're in every one of us, not least the artist himself, who appears as the charmingly candid antihero. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z Ned’s determination is noble, and Lancaster makes this “tragic antihero” empathetic as the film’s tone becomes increasingly somber and sobering. The 10 best movies that take place in one day 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Poniewozik then delves into the advent of reality shows as a continuation of the antihero genre. Which Came First, Trump or TV? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a conflict for every white man” — and crucial to an understanding of the existential antihero Zama. Lucrecia Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z "Fury Road" finds Tom Hardy stepping into Gibson's weathered boots as the antihero Max Rockatansky, a man haunted by his past who gets swept up in a vehicular battle across a desert wasteland. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' trailer is an eye-popping peek at the apocalypse 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Could any of this have happened without a character whose supposed flaws showed the limits of the antihero? Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z In a statement Thursday announcing the show’s end, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke praised Davis for her unforgettable portrayal of a female antihero. ABC’s ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ to end after next season 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z “Destroyer” is, for all intents and purposes, a neo-noir, with Erin as its antihero trapped in a story of fatalism and nihilism. Nicole Kidman is gunning for an Oscar in "Destroyer" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The Bard's villain of villains echoes throughout entertainment, manifesting in the likes of Tony Soprano and Walter White – antiheroes positioned in their stories as heroes. Danai Gurira plays "Richard III" for PBS: "This is ancient text running through a contemporary body" 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The movie refrains from taking a clear stance against its antihero. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Certainly, disappointment abounds in lots of antihero sagas, from the aforementioned Mad Men to shows like Breaking Bad and BoJack Horseman. Fight and flight: how Glow continues to show women at their best and worst 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It also pushes Murphy closer to antihero status than ever before. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 3: A Flawed Endgame 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Comic book heroes reflect the morals of our society; the antihero has become a symbol of our muddled ethics and the contradictions we embrace under the guise of justice. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The reason for this troubling treatment is simple: For Hollywood, and for Americans, it is better to be the villain or antihero rather than virtuous extra, so long as one occupies center stage. Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views, Even in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Many of the defining aspects of “Twin Peaks” can seem clichéd today: Its narrative intricacy, its darkness, its reliance on antiheroes. How “Twin Peaks” shaped the entire golden age of TV 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z A key part, alongside the Sopranos, The Wire and Deadwood, of the golden age of antihero drama, this thriller about likable – and utterly corrupt – cops broke new ground for bold, risk-taking television. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Though devoid of music, scenes pulse with the rhythms of brutality as our antihero sharpens a knife to the beat of a metronome, and gurgled screams echo off screen. Movie Review: ?Dissolution,? a Film Set in Israel by Nina Menkes 2012-03-09T00:49:35Z We learn more about our Michael Madsen-voiced antihero as well as discovering fresh skills and enemies in this brilliant add-on. Dishonored: The Knife Of Dunwall – review 2013-04-27T05:00:24Z Thus, we learn in the opening minutes of “BCS” that our eponymous antihero has settled in, far from the sun-scorched excitement of his previous incarnation, peacefully and miserably. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: In the Premiere, Plenty Of Nods to 'Breaking Bad' 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z But it also speaks to antihero dramas’ long history of giving men — generally only men — license to be bad. Review: ‘Good Girls’ Offers Equal Time for Antiheroines 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z On the one hand, musicals are a pleasure and an escape, an antidote to the antihero. On TV’s New Musicals, Every Episode Is Opening Night 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It doesn’t help that our antihero is as exciting as, well, a flying rock in a cape. ‘Black Adam’ Review: Heroism, but Paint It Black 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Is there really any difference between a hero and an antihero if everyone is making rules up as they go? The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Caledonia Kings, Until 26 August The antihero here is William Paterson, the Scottish founder of the Bank of England and a visionary of world trade. Caledonia 2010-08-22T14:41:00Z Like Shakespeare's antihero, the misfit at the centre of Little Shop of Horrors gets his first break through his own skill and resourcefulness. Little Shop of Horrors – review 2012-06-07T17:15:01Z In the works are offshoot films like “Silver & Black,” about the female superheroes Silver Sable and Black Cat, and “Venom,” with Tom Hardy playing that razor-toothed antihero. ‘Spider-Man’ Still Has Box Office Bite, to Sony’s Relief 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s an especially interesting question for Future, a charismatic antihero who always sounds as if he’s rapping with a busted heart, a stoned brain and a collapsed lung. Perspective | How Bjork, Future and the brightest minds in jazz tried to save 2017 with magic flutes 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The show left a deep rut in the road of violent, testosterone-drenched antihero drama that many others have traveled since, and lately TV’s creative energy has been elsewhere. Review: ‘Mayans M.C.’ Motors Down a Familiar Road 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z In a show saturated with masculinity and bogged down by antiheroes, Ani is the hero of the hour. Being female is a wound that never heals: How Ani Bezzerides emerged as the real hero of “True Detective” 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Conventional wisdom, Mr. Martin writes, “had once insisted Americans would never allow” such antiheroes into their living rooms — they belonged on the big screen, in the communal dark of a movie theater. Books of The Times: Brett Martin’s ‘Difficult Men’ Sees a New Golden Age for TV 2013-06-24T21:26:42Z This seems to be an unavoidable trope of antihero drama, the defining genre of TV’s “golden age”. Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z He modeled himself on Marlene Dietrich and Oscar Wilde and English music-hall performers and James Dean and, I don’t know, the antihero of some Strindberg play that existed only in his imagination. Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z He is now the antihero known as the Red Hood, a name originally used by the Joker. Batman and His Many Robins 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z All well and good, but today’s vigilantes are superheroes, not antiheroes. The Equalizer: why have Hollywood vigilantes gone soft? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “Prestige” television such as this loves an antihero, and here is one of the few shows where you have two going after each other. Billions: Showtime’s power-mad Wall Street drama is worth investing in 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Because if you allow “The Third Man” and Harry Lime, Welles’ memorable antihero, to weave their dark magic, the story’s enduring relevance is unmistakable. “The Third Man”: Why this masterful 1949 Euro-noir about the age of American arrogance and power is more relevant than ever 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z There is a point in all these antihero sagas, around the finale, where the viewing process turns into a kind of moral people’s court, where fans debate the precise retributive price the series should exact. ‘The Americans,’ at Last, Lets Us Exhale 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z But Mr. Baumbach, relishing his antihero’s obstinate difficulty — which is less an inability to connect with other people than a stubborn refusal, on hazy grounds of principle, to try — treats Roger with compassion, even tenderness. Movie Review | 'Greenberg': Ben Stiller as a Slacker in Noah Baumbach?s Work 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z Boseman has described Black Panther as a “super antihero” with “swagger” – qualities he is more than familiar with after playing James Brown in Get On Up. From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The perfect antidote to the conservatism of the Reagan era, Murray was simultaneously antihero and hero. Bill Murray finally wins this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z As I write this, I’m watching America’s new “antihero” Richard Sherman on TV, charming his way through another press conference. I love-hate football! 2014-02-02T16:30:00Z Don Giovanni – that seductive, admirable, predatory, antiest of antiheroes – is the prism through which the other characters define themselves, and through which, we as listeners, see ourselves. Director Jonathan Kent: Opera's great antihero 2010-07-01T21:01:00Z Cummings, as the victorious political strategist, is the tale’s antihero. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z “I almost feel like I was playing Richard III — an antihero who’s clearly out of his mind, but strangely admirable,” Mitchell said. John Cameron Mitchell Finds Joy in Mavis Staples and ‘Veneno’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z But a creepy disposition does not an antihero make, and “Nightcrawler” never attains anywhere near the gravity or the impact of “Taxi Driver” and “The King of Comedy.” ‘Nightcrawler’ Stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an Obsessive 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Alone among westerns of the 1950s, “Maverick,” which made its debut in 1957, was about an antihero. James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, the 21st century fascination with the antihero has made cheering on bad guys a veritable hobby. Sympathy for the devil: how The Handmaid's Tale finally goes too far 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Douglas is a '70s-style antihero whose star rose a decade late. Michael Douglas: The last great antihero 2010-05-21T12:01:00Z He also created Tor, a prehistoric hero, and, with Mr. Kanigher, Enemy Ace, whose antihero is a German pilot. Joe Kubert, Giant of Comic-Book Art, Dies at 85 2012-08-14T01:09:06Z It's time for the antihero to take a hike into the sunset – or should I say, sunrise? Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Instead, what I crave is for Pope to end with the same sense of well-earned triumph that have marked other antiheroes from the 21st century. The end of Scandal: in praise of Olivia Pope, TV's most glamorous antihero 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Salamishah Tillet wrote in The New York Times that her character was “one of the most memorable antiheroes, let alone one of the more complex black characters, on television.” Kerry Washington Is Going From the Beltway to Broadway 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The song, which featured prominently on the Deadpool soundtrack, was brought to life by a gaggle of Deadpool look-alikes dancing raunchily across the stage in homage to Reynolds’ award-winning antihero. Watch Salt-N-Pepa and Dancing Deadpools Celebrate Ryan Reynolds’ MTV Movie Award 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z In its pace, tone and improved dialogue, it provides a way forward that allows for intrigue and ambiguity without turning Kirkman into an antihero. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 4: A Way Forward 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The Parker series, with titles like “The Hunter,” “Butcher’s Moon” and “Nobody Runs Forever,” features a classic antihero: a no-nonsense criminal who speaks tersely and acts decisively, most often with his fists. Brooklyn Man Finds New Life in Crime (Writing) 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Book nerd Oscar de León moves through contemporary New Jersey, while his family history calls him from the Dominican Republic’s troubled past, and when the two narratives converge the quintessential 20th century antihero is born. Rigobert Gonzalez's Great Américas Novel: 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' by Junot Díaz 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z But Washington is always there, a substantial antihero with a genuinely tragic dimension. Flight – review 2013-02-03T00:07:01Z Forget our grown-up antiheroes with guns, it’s all about the little scowling bundle of terror. Looper Debrief: Come for the Time Travel, Stay for the Creepy (Brilliant) Devil Boy 2012-10-01T12:00:36Z The Times’s chief TV critic traces the long, tangled history of mass entertainment and politics, positioning President Trump as an antihero. 17 New Books to Watch For in September 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Thomas Cromwell is a textbook 21st century antihero. A Real Game of Thrones in Wolf Hall 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But having a woman as the baffled antihero of a cosmic joke can make for a far more compelling story entirely. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z We need to talk about that billionaire with the bat fetish — Batman, the quintessential antihero. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Over its four seasons, “Barry” often risked becoming the sort of thing that it critiqued: A stylish antihero show that makes ultraviolence entertaining. In the ‘Barry’ Finale, Hollywood Gets Away with Murder 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z It sounds like fans of the Marvel antihero might have had a lucky escape. Role reversals: the classic movie parts that almost went to someone else 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Owen’s Dr. Thackery turns out to be just one more in a long line of TV’s talented but tortured antiheroes plagued by personal demons that, frankly, aren’t that interesting this time around. ‘Outlander’ and ‘The Knick’: Once more, time is of the essence Spoiler: The heroes and antiheroes are the women, and they never quite win. From Harvey Weinstein to the new #MeToo movies, true justice still remains in the realm of fantasy 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Missing Child Seems Found, but His Family Is at a Loss Like its smirking antihero and chief narrator, the serial con artist Frédéric Bourdin, “The Imposter” is slippery, manipulative, unstable and smoothly confounding. Movie Review: ‘The Imposter,’ About the Con Artist Frédéric Bourdin 2012-07-12T22:39:37Z I’m glad I waited until well into adulthood to read Highsmith, because danger lurks for anyone who might take life lessons from her memorable male antiheroes. The Essential Patricia Highsmith 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Sorkin: I think he spends the first hour and 55 minutes of the movie being an antihero and the last five minutes of the movie being a tragic hero. Face-Off: The Makings of the Facebook Movie 2010-09-23T08:15:00Z Or the "Succession" version of that pondering: who will "win"? Will the antihero pay for his sins? Buoyed by Bill Hader's confident directing, "Barry" saves its best hits for last 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Cable dramas encouraged voters to root for a chaotic, rule-breaking antihero; melodramas like “Scandal” and “House of Cards” normalized a nihilistic view of all politics as intrinsically corrupt, existentially conspiratorial. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The image of an antihero floated up like a mystical vision, and it dominated his writing for years. Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Did you think there were any cultural risks involved in having a black female antihero? The Gladiators of ‘Scandal’ Leave the Arena 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Who is your favorite fictional hero or heroine and who is your favorite villain or antihero? Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Neither a hero nor a romanticized antihero, Pesci exudes the controlled curiosity and integrity of an actual artist while hitting the right beats as a wisecracking, law-bending photographer might. The Restrained Genius of a Joe Pesci Performance 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The action sequences, simultaneously thrilling, slapstick and bathetic, served the larger purpose of “Barry,” to tell the story of an antihero without celebrating his antiheroism. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z He exerted his influence on a generation of what critic Brett Martin termed “difficult men”, commanding antiheroes whose internal conflict held viewers captivated in spite of the more repugnant aspects of their personalities. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z In “Raining in the Mountain,” the central female character is something of an antihero. ‘Raining in the Mountain’ Review: A Martial Arts Gem From 1979 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z For the past several years, great television has been defined by the archetype of the antihero. Pennsatucky’s redemption: How “Orange Is the New Black” pulled a reverse “Breaking Bad” 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The nature of the performances in "Hunters" are secondary to the hunt, with each episode bringing the antiheroes closer to what they believe to be their top quarry. Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon's "Hunters" is the show for you 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z I’m not talking about Bernhardian antiheroes or protagonists who are hard to relate to. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The common thread of antihero drama and cringe comedy is the assumption that audiences could and should be able to distinguish between the mind-set of the protagonist and the outlook of the author. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z A group of literal antiheroes, the Boys, work to get back at the “supes,” in the show’s parlance, for their misdeeds and keep them in line. My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z I’ve written several times about the phenomenon of the cable-drama “bad fan”—the loyal viewer, often a guy, who views antiheroes as heroes. The Female Bad Fan 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z "Sometimes at their worst, antihero story lines have a deus ex machina that resolves the story, and it plays as a weird dark triumph in the absence of meaningful experience," adds Lisco. In today's TV shows, we like a little flaw with our heroes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Another notable case is Frank Underwood, the cutthroat antihero at the center of “House of Cards.” “Both-sexual” men on TV can save lives: How “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is smashing the “evil bi guy” myth 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The most interesting characters are both hero and antihero, aren’t they — sometimes with a touch of villain sprinkled in? Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But a video game, even or especially a shoot-em-up, can actually have a lot in common with the antihero drama format. ‘The Last of Us’ Finale: First-Person Shooter 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But I hope we see more comedies that try and follow this antihero model. From Tony Soprano to Hannah Horvath: What Does a TV Show ?Want? You to Think of Its Characters? 2012-04-18T17:05:00Z Kyle and the Reverend Anderson are just your standard-issue antiheroes who are struggling with their own personal demons while trying to fight others. Outcast: Walking Dead creator's exorcism drama doesn't possess spirit 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Equipped with an Aberdeen accent and a closely cropped haircut, Law's conflicted working-class antihero emerges as his most satisfyingly substantial lead performance in years. 'Black Sea's' Jude Law takes a deep dive into gritty territory 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It premiered before antiheroes like Don Draper or Walter White were household names, and it helped put Showtime on the map with its original programming. 10 killer facts about "Dexter" 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Ray Carney, the antihero of Whitehead’s 2021 novel “Harlem Shuffle,” is back, trying to keep his life on track: He’s stopped fencing stolen goods, and runs a thriving furniture store in Harlem. 24 Works of Fiction to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Whip Whitaker is an antihero who has put trusting passengers' lives at risk by his criminally irresponsible conduct. Flight – review 2013-02-03T00:07:01Z Like its glum antihero, “A Somewhat Gentle Man” takes a little time to find its feet. | 'A Somewhat Gentle Man': Humanity Under Layers of Grit and After Years of Crime 2011-01-14T01:07:17Z If this was Rice hitting bottom, OK, but our first reaction was not, as it often is with an antihero, concern for the damage he had done to his own soul. Ray Rice video shows where we draw line on violence 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In this age of the antihero, TV prefers its men broken, complicated, intriguing. 'Orange Is the New Black' Emmy nods a win for women 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z With its surprising reversals and deferred revelations, not to mention an antihero who doubles as an unreliable narrator, “The Oath” draws on storytelling methods more often associated with fiction than with documentary. Film: ?The Oath, a Documentary by Laura Poitras, Looks at Foreign Policy 2010-05-08T02:48:00Z Jones, a hirsute, craggy-faced, swaggering Texan who guilelessly played the antihero in some 60 films and dozens of television series, died on Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles. L.Q. Jones, Who Played Heavies With a Light Touch, Dies at 94 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z He is an antihero and the book is satirical and funny and also sad. The Nobel-Winning Economist Who Wants You to Read More Fiction 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z He is also the character who makes most clear that if not handled with care, the ambiguity and sympathetic back story granted a violent antihero can offer real-world cover for despicable actions. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z What "this" means is a story about one of the most chilling antiheroes in fictional history. Investigating "Killer Inside Me's" misogyny 2010-04-28T18:06:00Z For the uninitiated, the minions are a band of subverbal blobbish yellow creatures who exist to serve the film’s antihero; intended as a bit of spice, they’ve become, for their devoted fans, the main course. This Is How Minions Took Over the World 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “They will secure his place in the pantheon of dual-natured heroes/antiheroes.” Tupac Shakur Immortalized at Karamu in Cleveland 2010-04-10T03:51:00Z In Camus’s last chapter, the antihero is awaiting execution and rails against a prison chaplain who wants him to accept his understanding of God. An Algerian Author Fights Back Against a Fatwa 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z The director James Mangold brings an artful, small-scale sensibility to the X-Men franchise with this film, which stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, the clawed antihero, in Japan, where he battles samurai and a guilty conscience. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ and ‘Incredibles 2’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z If Tom Hardy’s Symbiote-assisted antihero seems to be borrowing heavily from David Cronenberg-esque body horror, the living vampire has the potential to tap into audiences’ enduring lust for gothic chillers. With its new 'Spidey-verse', can Sony triumph as the anti-Marvel? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It was an ensemble drama in the age of the antihero. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘All in With Cam Newton,’ ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Southland’ 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z A hero somewhat in the Shavian and Wildean mold, all observations and wisecracks, the often charming Leonard is more an antihero, possessed of contradictions. Theater Review: ‘Mary Broome’ by Allan Monkhouse at Mint Theater 2012-09-23T21:27:20Z He has an air of quiet sensitivity and a slightly adenoidal voice that suggests an off-hours version of the antiheroes and rogues he has embodied on camera. Benicio Del Toro, Hollywood’s Instant Antihero, Goes the Distance 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z But Trump – the seemingly prototypical antihero – alternately bugs, bores, or sickens me. Mad Men: how Don Draper and Walter White prepared us for Donald Trump 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z “Foxcatcher,” by contrast, is the story of an independent producer as antihero, a monster who arises to fulfill a need and who preys upon those in need. What’s Missing from “Foxcatcher” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z I like to think of Ivan Locke as more of an antihero – a fascinating, credible study of an unlikable, emotionally repressed modern man. My streaming gem: why you should watch Locke 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Do antiheroes provide a type of cultural therapy by providing permission to indulge in our darkest desires and impulses in a society where such behavior is usually forbidden? Why the Punisher is more relatable than Superman: "Anger is an easier feeling" 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z What follows is an extended, entertaining rush of sometimes breathtaking action as Dupontel’s laconic antihero attempts to save those he loves. ‘The Prey’: Distractions slow down exciting chase 2013-06-06T20:26:27Z Unlike the majority of current US cable dramas, Justified is not an antihero show. Justified: Timothy Olyphant on Elmore Leonard and the golden age of TV 2013-04-27T05:00:00Z Not Jack the square-jawed protagonist, not Sawyer the wisecracking antihero, not even the Man in Black who could transform into smoke and kill people. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z I’m glad you mentioned that, because that’s the drama analogue of a woman who’s being allowed to be an antihero in the way that like one male character after another has been on TV. Lena Dunham Interview, Part Three: ?Or A Voice, of A Generation 2012-04-16T13:25:50Z C., the antihero of Hilbig’s novel, is an alcoholic writer who leaves East Germany a few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z It really wants to be and comes at viewers with the full barrage of antiheroes, bad behavior and bare butts that we’ve come to expect out of prestige television. Animal Kingdom: nihilistic feast of bros, bare butts and bad behavior 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps the trend is in part a backlash to the dark and brooding antihero who dominated our TV screens in the early 2000s – Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White, Omar Little. What's with all the sooky, disappointing men on TV right now? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Is he the Antichrist or simply an antihero? Review | ‘Black Magic’ is an oft-overlooked thriller. Don’t overlook it. 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Which brings us to “Black Adam,” a dull, listless superhero movie that hits all the expected touchstones of the genre under the guise of a transgressive new antihero story. ‘Black Adam’ Review: Heroism, but Paint It Black 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The most sustained and hilarious episode in Solar tells how its bad-scientist antihero goes on a fact-finding trip to the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen to see the melting of the Arctic for himself. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z Taking pains to establish Daniel’s culinary gifts without belaboring them, the writer and director, Jesse Zigelstein, allows us brief respites — as when Daniel wordlessly butchers a hog — from his antihero’s rage. ‘Nose to Tail’ Review: Cooking Monster 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z If Winterbottom's film were literally a bomb that blew us all up after we watched it -- that blew us up because we watched it -- it might fulfill all its antihero's and original creator's ambitions. "The Killer Inside Me": Much ado about misogyny 2010-06-17T14:01:00Z It doesn’t even fit the cable TV antihero mold. In ‘Rectify,’ Life After Prison and the Chance to Be Reborn 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z That said, the fact that "Venom" tries to liven up the superhero formula by making the titular character into an antihero doesn't automatically mean that the movie works. Tom Hardy singlehandedly saves “Venom” from the trash pile of bad standalone superhero movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In other words, the stereotypical manic-depressive of a Hollywood film is a two-dimensional caricature: either a drooling clown or a doomed, Byronic antihero, with nothing in between. Filmmaker Paul Dalio mines his bipolar disorder for feature debut 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z By pitting her against the High Sparrow and his merry band of religious extremists, she’s being remade into something like an antihero. Game of Thrones: where have all the baddies gone? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z If you miss the griminess of shows like “The Shield,” or mid-aughts antihero dramas in general, this is for you. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Along with Bateman, they comprise a Mount Rushmore lineup of the higher antihero naughtiness. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Ulysses is no antihero or wayward soul; he’s the embodiment of evil, every villager’s idea of a bad man. What to Stream This Weekend: “Poor White Trash” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The bank bailout debate still rages, and arrogant banking kingpins looks less like antiheroes than out-and-out villains. "Wall Street" a powerfully told sequel 2010-05-14T21:25:00Z The first, best and eternal antihero is Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’s mortal enemy, from which every Bond villain, master criminal and unseen malefactor is descended. By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z A good number of blaxploitation movies took narrative outlines and antihero trappings from classic crime films and changed the ethnicity. Blaxploitation Movies Are Ready to Stream, Nostalgia Included 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The character will be remembered as an icon of our era of grift, alongside the antiheroes of “Fyre Fraud,” “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” and “The Apprentice.” “The Act,” Reviewed: A Juicy True-Crime Drama That Deconstructs Soapy Tropes 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z To see a marginalized person as an antihero is different. The Politician's antihero is a victory for queer characters – because he's awful 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z For newcomers, Netflix has the first three seasons, which are too busy establishing the appealing antihero mood to require the over-the-top baddies of the later seasons, and, arguably, are better for it. Catch-up TV Guide: From Silk to Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast 2012-06-08T23:05:13Z The “Suicide Squad” tale of antiheroes imbued with superhuman powers was a hit with its early audiences, gathering an overall B-plus rating, according to CinemaScore’s exit polling. Will 'Suicide Squad' break August box office record? 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z No one embodies the antihero persona quite like Mildred Hayes, the vengeful firebrand whom best actress nominee Frances McDormand plays in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” ‘The messier, the better’: The righteously angry women who dominate this year’s Oscars 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z How do you get audiences to take a movie seriously when it features a guy who shoots lasers out of his eyes, a naked blue shape-shifter and a feral antihero with metal claws? 'Avengers: Age of Ultron': James Spader and the supervillain upgrade 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Colter is wonderful, but the show gets a little repetitive, and if you watch a lot of other “tortured hero” shows — either superhero or antihero — you’ll be familiar with plenty of the plotting. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Luke Cage’ and ‘Documentary Now!’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z During my rewatch of the Bobby funeral episode, which ends with a freeze frame of a heartbroken J.R. looking up at the sky, I realized that the slick but soulful oilman was my gateway antihero. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Dallas’ 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Before Nurse Jackie, Edie Falco was already familiar to viewers from The Sopranos, the morally gray antihero show that set the model for dozens to follow. Review: How Nurse Jackie Taught a Clinic in Antiheroism 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Richie hasn’t given viewers much reason to root for him, either as a hero or as an antihero. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Adventures of Richie and Ernst 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, Wagner drew upon Harry – a classic antihero with whom we are never intended to completely identify – for inspiration. Can the new Judge Dredd movie excise all memories of Sly Stallone and Rob Schneider? 2010-09-16T13:59:00Z The Merc With A Mouth does have the advantage of being first out of the gate in 2016, crucially arriving ahead of Suicide Squad, DC’s broadly similar mob of volatile antiheroes. Deadpool: ‘I don’t think my mom is going to be able to watch it’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z But above all, it’s a confident and lyrical story with an intimate understanding of the sort of characters who are too often used as decoration in the Bada Bings of antihero drama. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z As bouncy as vaudeville, “Orange” veered away from the antihero solemnity of many cable shows, but it shared those series’ air of authority and, especially, their willingness to be rude. Emily Nussbaum: “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie” Reviews 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Love ’em or hate ’em, plenty of popcorn was had in the company of these real-life antiheroes. Almost Infamous: 10 Biopics With Memorable Antiheroes 2013-10-23T09:45:20Z In this book, Hale’s heroes and antiheroes don’t glide through the world around them; they stumble, fall and get kicked while they’re on the ground. Benjamin Hale treats troubled characters with care in 'The Fat Artist and Other Stories' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z While Liu’s humanity on the whole is conservative, some characters — both heroes and antiheroes — are determined to save civilization at all costs. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “The Ginger Man” — whose bohemian American-in-Ireland antihero, Sebastian Dangerfield, has been described as impulsive, destructive, wayward, cruel, a monster, a clown and a psychopath — was both banned and burned in Ireland. J.P. Donleavy, Acclaimed Author of ‘The Ginger Man,’ Dies at 91 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z He’s a new kind of antihero; even his kindest deeds are rooted in the Snowdenesque arrogance of breached security. USA’s beguiling ‘Mr. Robot’ returns as appointment TV for bummed-out Bernie Bros 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The creators, Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, have crossbred a throwback Western with a modern antihero drama, let it graze on the myth of the West and hormone-injected it with a rural-vs.-urban culture war. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z This is the first time in UK film that the hoodie gang, practised in petty crime, rather than snazzy gangsterism or striking violence, has been treated like big canvas outlaw antiheroes. SXSW 2011: Joe Cornish on aliens, hoodies and Attack the Block 2011-03-14T01:24:49Z Rumors have been swirling since last summer that Netflix was looking to give Marvel’s popular antihero the Punisher his own series. The Punisher: Netflix to give Daredevil star his own spinoff series 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z With the sort of female antiheroes and complicated dissections of gender that you won’t find anywhere else, this is the “television for women” we’ve always wanted. How to catch up with … UnREAL 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z “All the aspects of the series that once startled viewers have become accepted: serialization; narrative and moral ambiguity; antiheroes or villains as main characters; beauty for its own sake.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Deep Dive Back Into ‘The Sopranos’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s worth stopping to point out that some of the disparity in how antiheroes have evolved can be attributed to the different philosophies of competing franchises. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z As in a drama like “Succession,” this created a universe of recurring characters — allies, antiheroes, antagonists — and situated viewers within a network of relationships and emotions. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Watch the video to see the stars prove you don’t need to be a villainous antihero with your life under mortal threat to do something good for the community. Watch the 'Suicide Squad' Stars Visit a Little Girl's Lemonade Stand 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z None of this is to say that antihero stories are necessarily amoral. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z At the end of the interview, Castellucci discussed the opera’s finale: a sextet of the plot’s survivors, celebrating the downfall of the central antihero. At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z In The Job and especially Rescue Me, the mashup of comedy and pathos was erratic, but when it worked it was raw and bracing in a way more self-serious antihero series couldn’t achieve. Review: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Delivers Rock of the Aged 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Girls could be antiheroes, too, it turned out. Perspective | Elizabeth Wurtzel was right all along 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Friedman gives a doggedly intense performance as the hard-luck antihero of the tale, seething with the bottled-up rage of a man who cannot accept the indifferent hand life has dealt him. | 'The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World': Three Sisters, a Deluded Dad and Some Wretched Rock 2011-06-08T02:15:25Z While any number of TV’s most famous male antiheroes grapple with alcohol abuse and repressed trauma, honest and nuanced portraits of female antiheroes are often more challenging to execute, especially onscreen. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Do you feel particularly attracted to antiheroes or energized by them as a writer? ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z Another way the culture industry has kept antiheroes popular is by lacing their stories with a dose of often self-deprecating humor. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z That’s important: You need to see that Frances believes that she’s the hero of a drama, not an antihero in a farce. In ‘Divorce,’ Sarah Jessica Parker Wants to Ditch Mr. Medium 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Nine years ago Anna Gunn, who played the "Breaking Bad" antihero's wife Skyler, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times titled "I Have a Character Issue." In breaking up with Kim Wexler, "Better Call Saul" maps a noble end to a stellar portrait of a lady 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z I think I told him that he only thought Kowalski was an antihero because he wanted to get with Marlon Brando, who was the prettiest thing in that film and absolutely knew it. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Human despicableness informs so many of our favorite shows, to the degree that we become largely inured to the moral shortcomings of antiheroes. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It is only later that the character morphs into antihero mode, moving to San Francisco and helping a community of homeless people in the Venom: Lethal Protector storyline. Tom Hardy's casting as Venom is a masterstroke for Sony's superhero universe 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The first two episodes maintained the Shakespearean tension between these codependent antiheroes; since then the balance has been off. ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘That’s Not This Story’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z In “Thor: Ragnarok,” he teamed up with his brother to protect the people of Asgard, morphing from villain to antihero. How Will ‘Loki’ Handle the Multiverse? Its Writer Talks Season 2. 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Beans, who develops an immediate, territorial dislike of both Loudermilk and Harry, is either the novel’s villain or its obnoxious antihero in his quest to foil Loudermilk’s scheme and expose Harry as the real poet. Review | Poking fun at the male ego — and academia — in one cheeky little novel 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Boasting the hectic aggression of a silent slapstick short — without the silence — “Young Bodies Heal Quickly” pants to keep up with its rambunctious antiheroes. Review: ‘Young Bodies Heal Quickly’ Follows Brothers on the Run 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Like its hairless antiheroes, “Breaking Bad” is itself a bald show—resourceful and pleasingly unadorned. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z Unlike some other top movie stars, Mr. Washington is just as comfortable playing villains, antiheroes and deeply flawed men as he is portraying heroes. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z In his 2007 graphic novel “Shortcomings,” race becomes a live wire, as its antihero, a Gen-X Japanese-American slacker in Berkeley, utterly loses his cool in a stew of interracial dating and infidelities. New Work From Two Masters of the Graphic Novel 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The show satirized the traditional genre and established Mr. Garner in the public’s mind as an amiable antihero. James Garner, disarming leading man of film and television, dies at 86 But he was known to a much wider public as the author of books that sought to identify Vlad, the evildoing 15th-century monarch, as the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker’s antihero. Radu Florescu, Scholar Who Linked Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dies at 88 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Beginning on a note of bathos, our unnamed 25-year-old antihero starts off his day with a blunt needle, “but I hit a vein, no problem, . . . It’s going to be a lucky day.” Review | The best audiobooks to listen to this month 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z But it also wasn’t like cable dramas, such as “The Sopranos,” that were built around charismatic antiheroes whose exploits captivated the viewer and drove the plot. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He has played the hero more than the antihero in Westerns. ‘Yellowstone’ Proves There Is Still an Appetite for TV Westerns 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z But as much as the film's self-sabotaging antihero loved heroin, he loved jazz even more. Jazz films explore the hell and joy of musical perfection 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z To liberal white readers who encountered him through their Book-of-the-Month-Club subscriptions, he was a black antihero, claiming their interest and testing their sympathy. “Native Son” and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z I always love the antihero, and that's the character that I was thinking about earlier. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Then he began a riff on the antihero and his phone went out again. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z He is an antihero who exudes chaotic charm. ‘Kids,’ Then and Now 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The show was even better this season, with Russell's hard-core Commie turning into one of television's great antiheroes. Inked-in bets and a few penciled-in ones in Emmy's drama acting races 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z That’s what happens when you transplant a hard-boiled antihero into broadcast television. ‘Constantine,’ Hard-Boiled Exorcist, Returns as NBC Series 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z And though there was a lot to like in Breaking Bad, as a portrait of an antihero it was finger-painting next to The Sopranos. Today's TV shows are good – but they aren't The Sopranos 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z That might be the most telling thing that the three shows had in common: In contrast to earlier antiheroes like Tony Soprano and Walter White, their central characters got to go out on positive notes. Three (White, Male) Tough Guys Sign Off. Is It a Moment? 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Like his math prodigy antihero, Mr. Canin has often set impossible standards for himself, and faced pressure to live up to the inflated expectations that come with early success. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Our antihero sits on his sofa recalling possibly imaginary exploits and lamenting the state of the nation, which he regards as “a shopping mall with a flag.” Sean Penn, Satirist, Swings at America in a Wild Debut Novel 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z At times when I’ve felt like one of its sad-sack antiheroes — luckless, friendless, dumped, alone — that book has been high comic nourishment. Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z This is a tremendous departure from a decade ago, when prestige TV dramas that focused on anger were fixated on male antiheroes. Mad women: how angry sisterhood is taking over the small screen 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Within 10 days Britain's two most captivating Shakespearean interpreters have taken to the stage to recreate antiheroes. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z In his latest novel, “Solar,” Mr. McEwan’s protagonist — a fat, middle-aged Nobel Prize-winning physicist named Michael Beard — joins this gallery of distasteful antiheroes. Books of The Times: Ian McEwan?s ?Solar? Features a Boorish Physicist 2010-03-29T21:45:00Z “He’s the hero of all his own books,” said his son, Will Tevis, 66, before correcting himself: “He’s the antihero.” Walter Tevis Was a Novelist. You Might Know His Books (Much) Better as Movies. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z It is a character study, and he is an antihero. Simon Rex on playing a washed-up porn star in "Red Rocket": "He's an aging narcissist " 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z “I loved ‘400 Blows,’ all the antihero kind of movies,” said Mr. Freeman, who was still attending film school at New York University while he was shooting “Hurricane” in and around downtown Manhattan. Television: At 40, Circling Back to Teenage Life 2010-08-28T02:53:00Z For Capote and Mailer, the murderer loomed as an antihero, a tragic figure defying the conventions and expectations of mainstream America. Book Review Podcast: 'One of Us' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And like many a comic-book superhero and antihero before him, Tracker grapples painfully with his own identity, even as he fights off a succession of opponents who threaten to thwart his mission. A Fantasy Set in Africa, by Way of Hieronymus Bosch, García Márquez and Marvel Comics 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The potential problem here is that the Batman of The Dark Knight Returns veers into antihero territory in a way that Christopher Nolan's big screen iteration never did. Man of Steel 2 will make a villain of Superman or Batman 2013-07-22T10:32:23Z He’s portrayed as a brilliant antihero, Indiana Jones meets Tony Soprano. Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Here, he plays Wade Wilson, a breezily amoral hired gun who, after some story filler, turns into Deadpool, an antihero who likes to address the camera between kills. Review: ‘Deadpool,’ a Sardonic Supervillain on a Kill Mission 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z These shows certainly reinvented how we approached the mostly male antiheroes, but it is difficult to imagine how any TV writers’ room worth its salt would ever sign off on someone as one-dimensional as Trump. Which Came First, Trump or TV? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z “It has a larger-than-life antihero and Gotham-style side villains. Why not try to animate it?” ‘The Blacklist’ Draws Up a Novel End to Its Season 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Nothing like the original, it's more of an insane black comedy, with pulp crime plots and reptilian hallucinations viewed through our antihero's narcotic dementia. Films out this week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Many of the most popular antihero shows—even the great ones, like “Breaking Bad” and “The Sopranos”—are about power, about what it means to be the boss. “The Americans” Is Too Bleak, and That’s Why It’s Great 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Instead, he allowed Brooks to be a classic antihero — a man whose worst impulses weren’t an expression of inherent evil but of the same frailties everyone in the audience could relate to. Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z But in their pursuit of silliness, he and Mr. Brooks never firmly establish that milieu, leaving their antihero without a foil and their play without a context. Review: A Molière-Born Cad for the Ages in ‘Don Juan’ 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Action flits between the 1980s and 2025 as two generations of special forces player characters attempt to bring the antihero and his minions to justice. Call of Duty: Black Ops II – review 2012-11-18T00:06:07Z Like the antihero of Camus’s “The Stranger,” also set in Algiers, Jean experiences the death of a parent and views himself as a foreigner in his native land. France’s Colonial Conflict, Filmed From Both Sides 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z It was a little disappointing to see Frank turn into a largely uncaring spouse for so much of the episode—it was a move towards rote antihero plotting that felt quite predictable. “True Detective” recap: Internal investigations and the shoot-out of the century 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Democrats have compared Santos to the chameleonic antihero of the novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” or the highflying con man in the film “Catch Me If You Can.” George Santos had an awkward first day at the office 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z This may be a side effect of our attraction to antiheroes like Chuck, but there seem to be other motives at play, too, in Oliver’s aggressive tactics. ‘Billions’ Season 2 Premiere: Neanderthals 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z He created the archetypal antihero in “Macbeth” and “Richard III.” Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z His life has been woven into the history of the nation, and he has become the foremost chronicler of Mozambique’s antiheroes: its women, its peasants, even its dead. How Mia Couto’s Words Help Weave the Story of Mozambique 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as a sardonic antihero in this Marvel sequel. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘We the Animals’ and an Olivia Newton-John Biopic 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Utah's alcohol control department filed the complaint after undercover officers attended a screening of Marvel's R-rated antihero film in February. A Utah theater in trouble for serving booze during the movie "Deadpool" is asking a judge to block state authorities from enforcing an obscenity law they say is so broad it would apply to Michelangelo's "David." 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z There are the antihero hits “Joker” and “Hustlers,” distinctive takes on the extremes that living in a rich man’s world will drive a person to. "Parasite's" Bong Joon-ho: "Voyeurism is an essential part of cinema" 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Simpson is also the protagonist or antihero of an operatic tragedy too implausible for fiction; if Don DeLillo or Theodore Dreiser had invented his story it would seem laughable. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Hell, even antihero dramas like Breaking Bad assume a moral universe of good and bad and judgment. Seinfeld at 25: There's Still Nothing Else Like It 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He makes Chishiya formidable by making him the type of antihero without concern, even when the stakes could mean his death. Why some see this "Alice in Borderland" breakout as a role model for survival 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Evil roles and antiheroes make for some of opera’s juiciest parts. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z Catwoman is traditionally something of an antihero rather than a full-on villain, a character created by Bob Kane to personify the sublime paradox of male fear and attraction towards the opposite sex. Anne Hathaway's Catwoman walks into a crowded Dark Knight Rises 2011-01-20T14:56:04Z Among the most valuable was Meisterheim, who had emerged as the show’s signature antihero. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z The cops investigating the motorcycle crash are particularly well drawn, and, refreshingly, they’re not cliched antiheroes. ‘Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?’ review: An antic story of scams and gangsters 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Her chapter on superhero comics goes narrow, treating antihero stories such as “Watchmen” and “The Boys” as the endpoints of the cape comics genre. What Even Is a Nerd Anymore? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Also, he said, “The way we’re looking at it, Carlos is an antihero.” It’s the Highest-Profile Challenge of an Earnest Tenor’s Career 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z He has a slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men onscreen and onstage with equal ease. Ben Whishaw Makes Himself at Home in New York 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But if you treat it as a do-over — if the series, like one of its haunted antiheroes, is retracing its steps to try to get things right — then it’s fine. Review: ‘True Detective’ Circles Back, Flatly 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z At first the students were puzzled by the transition from a hero like Odysseus to an antihero like Holden. Teaching “The Odyssey” at San Quentin 2013-12-21T00:00:00Z “Manchester” highlights the might and idiosyncrasies of family bonds but remains a tough tale with an antihero at its heart. ‘La La Land’ Has an Oscars Edge: Its Hollywoodness 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The rotten-toothed, sweaty antihero — whose glasses magnify his eyes to a cartoonish degree — is portrayed as a buffoon until the moments when, again and again, he suddenly snaps and starts hitting women. ‘The Golden Glove’ Review: Honka, Portrait of a Serial Killer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z I was interested in how she's this antihero for so many young women who identify with her for better or for worse. The Antlers' kiss of death 2010-05-13T21:50:00Z He definitely isn’t TV’s new antihero — but he hasn’t yet proved himself a hero, either. ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s the old antihero rationalization taken to its logical, demonic extreme. Breaking Good: How Fargo Changed Cable's Antihero Game 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The categories of hero and villain — and, yes, antihero — don’t do the job in “The Boys,” which is why the series is so arresting. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Like Wonka, Gene is at times the pioneering visionary of his kingdom and at times the obstinate antihero. Review | ‘Action Park’ looks back at one very dangerous amusement park 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Can he give fans a satisfying finale for the haunted antihero Jax Teller? Sons of Anarchy Watch: Out With A Bang 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Many critical and audience darlings on the streaming and more prestigious cable networks are replete with alienated antiheroes, morally blinkered protagonists and straight-up evildoers. With ‘Roadies,’ Cameron Crowe Takes His Good Mood to TV 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z What, exactly, does the world's most popular sport have to do with the antihero of "Breaking Bad"? World Cup: John Oliver calls FIFA the 'Walter White' of sports 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “It’s very rare that we get to see female antiheroes, especially ones that are operating from a place of ambition and self-involvement,” Schwab said. In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z At a time when TV was defined by the Don Drapers and Walter Whites – dark, brooding, male antiheroes – Alicia Florrick stood out. Julianna Margulies on her shocking Ebola drama: 'I panicked in my hazmat suit!' 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z Chris and I came up in an age where those male antihero shows were very good, very celebrated. The ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Showrunners on ‘Redefining the Story of Losers’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z It also reinforces the notion that Yossarian is a classic antihero, rather than a sane innocent trapped in a world of madness. Catch-22: has George Clooney broken the curse of the unfilmable novel? 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z I think antiheroes are really fun to play. Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s not that Mr. Cooper necessarily set out to portray Mr. Bulger as a charismatic antihero whose actions are both appalling and exciting. Review: In ‘Black Mass,’ Johnny Depp Is the Dead-Eyed Killer Whitey Bulger 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z My American literature professor thought Stanley Kowalski in “A Streetcar Named Desire” was an antihero. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z None of this is to say that Dave is the villain, or even antihero, of his story. On ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky Faces the Music 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Supplied by performers standing near a puppet theater, the acoustic punctuation adds zest to the cheerfully violent and ribald escapades of the eponymous puppet, a truncheon-wielding antihero. Review | Pointless Theatre’s slapdash ‘Don Cristóbal’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Is he a distinctive creation in the end, or one more antihero going after a last score, a Walter Pale White? REVIEW: Boardwalk vs. Empire: Can HBO's Gangster Chronicle Bring Its Two Sides Together? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Some viewers resisted “Hancock” because it cast Smith against type as an unlikable antihero … maybe the timing is better now? Stream These 7 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix This Month 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z We have learned to accept the human antihero, but when it comes to dogs, I guess we still have a long way to go.” Is the Movie Industry Guilty of Dog ?Breed-ism?? 2012-01-31T17:22:56Z There is a strong performance from Arena as the hyperactive antihero Luciano: this actor is actually a convicted criminal that Garrone discovered in a prison drama group. Reality – review 2013-03-21T21:40:01Z Our antihero begins to understand that “by a grotesque reversal his vulnerable flesh now lay outside his skeleton.” Ian McEwan’s Political Satire ‘The Cockroach’ Offers a Reversal of Kafka 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z I would call him an antihero were he more complex, but, though Ghost does bad things, there is no real darkness in him. Starz's 'Power' plays it cool and dark 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z In other words, she is intentionally flat, a feature that Aduba’s nuanced performance leans into with wit and grit, making Clyde a rarity for a Black woman actress: an antihero. What Three Broadway Shows Tell Us About Racial Progress 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z By these standards, My Morning Jacket’s “The Waterfall” depicts a not-quite-sympathetic male protagonist similar to an Updike antihero—caddish, self-absorbed, impatient with the women in his life. My Morning Jacket’s “The Waterfall”: You’ve never heard Jim James like this 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z A commitment to the rise and fall of an antihero and a casual attitude to obesity? A fine Roman 2011-03-19T00:03:00Z “This is it — but instead of yet another dude saving the day, our antiheroes are the most feared and formidable creatures man has ever encountered: two 15-year-old girls.” Johnny Depp and Kevin Smith to work alongside daughters in Yoga Hosers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z He is a paint-by-the-numbers, white male antihero who is trying to get over his dark past and start again. The Art of More: an auction house drama not worth investing your time 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z As the anchor of the Shelbys and the show, Tommy displays the classic contradictions of the gangster antihero — a family man who murders without compunction. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Caravaggio, on the other hand, exemplifies the modern antihero, a hyperrealist whose art is instantly accessible. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z She had passions, but unlike the male antiheroes of cable, she didn’t have the luxury of letting them spew volcanically. ‘The Good Wife’: A Broadcast Gem Fades Away 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But the twist bears repeating, from a different perspective: Famuyiwa took his aspirational geek protagonist and, in order to make him an antihero, turned him into a drug dealer, by the character's own choice. Not as 'Dope' as hyped, but it has its moments 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In Charming, California, the insidious "League Of American Nationalists" is gaining ground, and wreaking havoc on the club members, our not always likable antiheroes. Atlantis: The Evidence 2010-06-02T07:00:00Z It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia reigns as Seinfeld’s most obvious descendent, with its antiheroes and irreverence mirroring that of its predecessor. 'No hugging, no learning': 20 years on Seinfeld's mantra still looms large 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Through Tony, Gandolfini wrote the blueprint for the modern, complicated TV antihero; he took the wall between stand-up TV good guys and wicked bad guys and bashed it down with a baseball bat. James Gandolfini (1961-2013): As a Made Man, He Made TV Great 2013-06-20T03:07:05Z "Dark Web: Cicada 3301" gives the actor the opportunity to riff on a film noir antihero. Jack Kesy is a chatty hacker in comic thriller "Dark Web," in which the truth is loosely defined 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z One of TV’s last great antiheroes departed Sunday night on Showtime’s “Billions.” Damian Lewis Discusses the Future of ‘Billions’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z With anxiety comes antiheroes, who abound in films this year, the programmers say. Sundance Unveils an In-Person Lineup Filled With Stories of Anxiety and Urgency 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Like his antihero, Bruen loves words, even other people’s words, and introduces his chapters with epigraphs from odd sources. Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller Is Back. This Time He’s the Suspect. 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In a sense, Orlando is also an antihero in the drama of Woolf’s oppressive heteronormative society — a subversion, a counterpoint to convention, a sentinel of the resistance. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In Rohde’s words: “Arrogant rich guy collector, and really, really funny irreverent, slightly antihero characters. I like them. I don’t like him. We’re going to help them get out.” ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to debut at Disneyland, with much more Marvel to come 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z We’ve been living in the age of the television antihero for a while now. When the Heroine Is Less Than Perfect 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Related: A brief history of computers on TV, from Star Trek to Silicon Valley Joe is an antihero, but Ronan in Guardians of the Galaxy was an out-and-out villain. Lee Pace interview: 'Halt and Catch Fire is about people, not computers' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Over time, antihero culture spread from premium cable to the mainstream. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The similarities with another fictional thief — Richard Stark's antihero Parker — are many. Crime fiction: new books by Garry Disher, C.J. Box and Laura Lippman 2011-08-10T22:07:04Z Whatever Guzmán had in mind in terms of genre, he was confident in the knowledge that Hollywood loves a colorful antihero, especially one who has built an empire beyond the reach of the law. Sean Penn, El Chapo and Hollywood’s mutual fascination with Big Crime 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z This is a queer noir world, full of inexplicable violence, an encyclopedia’s worth of sexual deviance and a deeply flawed, untrusting and untrustworthy antihero. The Dystopia Has Just Arrived 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Or the unnamed antihero of “Fight Club,” who is, we eventually learn, hallucinating an alter ego. "Mr. Robot" and the Angry Young Man 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Still, through his sympathetic antihero, Abdoh gives us a rare, eye-opening look at people who rebel against authority simply by being their authentic selves. Iranian characters struggle to be themselves in ‘A Nearby Country Called Love’ 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z So off we go with him, to a series of faraway places — Paris, the Dominican Republic, New Orleans, New York, Chicago — as our antihero goes about making things right. Review: David Fincher's 'The Killer' both satisfying and disappointing 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z It does make sense, though, that those on the right aisle should find a pairing of these two the perfect storm of antiheroes. The haters gonna hate (hate hate hate hate), but do Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce even notice? 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z His breakout role came in 1993 in the romantic thriller “Baazigar,” where he starred as an antihero for the first time. Meet Shah Rukh Khan: If you haven't heard of the Bollywood superstar, it's about time you did 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z A Colombian video vanguard, a paper boy turned global icon and America’s favorite antihero walked into a New Jersey arena on Tuesday night. MTV VMAs: From Taylor Swift and 'NSYNC to Olivia Rodrigo's set collapse, here are the takeaways 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z But the filmmaker could not avoid fielding questions about the upcoming Marvel antihero film and its star, Ryan Reynolds. Director Shawn Levy on the 'Deadpool 3' ending and the Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman bromance 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z “You know how they talk about antiheroes, the people who are the bad guys but they really aren’t? That’s my dad.” Daiyan Henley was born into the deadly world of his dad, who put him on a path to the NFL 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z As much as Amanda may seem like an irredeemable antihero, you come to appreciate her unspoken dream of finding fulfillment in the company of at least one other person on her crooked wavelength. Review: In 'Amanda,' a surly loner drums up her own drama — but she's not insufferable 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Nuanced antiheroes were not this show’s jam, and never did dark doings define the day. ‘Ted Lasso’ finale proved its whole point — that those who are stuck can overcome (SPOILERS) 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Burton wrote in 2001 about the demand for antiheroes or athletes with controversial images. Grizzlies’ Morant in limbo again, awaits review of latest gun video on social media 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Namor, the brown antihero of the film, is no shallow villain. Marvel is doing just fine, thanks. But some fans are at a 'tipping point' 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Joe is an addictively charming antihero, and after four books, he still feels fresh and original. Review | ‘You’ may be wrapping up, but Joe Goldberg lives on in a new book 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z This should spark a belated but startling realization: This is an antihero show. Review | Has ‘Yellowjackets’ bitten off more than it can chew? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The chaotic scene, paired with other set photos of Phoenix locked up inside a Gotham police vehicle, suggests that the film’s titular antihero will face criminal charges in the sequel. Everything we know so far about 'Joker 2' (and all those set photos of Lady Gaga) 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z His love of the city going unrequited is Shakespearean enough, but Trump took it a step further, rising to the presidency only to become a hometown antihero. New York, city of Trump’s dreams, delivers his comeuppance 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z He has called President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine a corrupt “antihero” and mocked him for dressing “like the manager of a strip club.” Ron DeSantis Says Protecting Ukraine Is Not a Key U.S. Interest 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But parents can be villains — or antiheroes — too. Opinion | The 2023 best picture nominees show parenting is an unbeatable source of joy 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Most antihero shows feature a lonely man’s doomed but compelling struggle with his own guilt, ambition and complicity. Review | Has ‘Yellowjackets’ bitten off more than it can chew? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Elba is still quite good as the antihero John Luther, who starts the story in jail due to some of the questionable choices he’s made over the years. Review: Deft performances elevate snappy thriller 'Unseen'; Idris Elba is back as 'Luther' 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Each character – a brawny but tender trio stretching from villain to antihero – is leaden with pain. Jonathan Majors flexes his acting muscle, turns heavyweight 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Elba, ever watchable, makes for a nicely conflicted antihero, torn between toeing the line and using unconventional methods — such as threatening to tattoo the eyeball of a reluctant witness — to extract information. Review | ‘Luther: The Fallen Sun’: Crimes against humanity — and subtlety 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z And that ambivalence defines the play’s elusive antihero: Sidney’s impulses are benign, but he is slow to grasp the needs of others, particularly Iris, an aspiring actress yearning for feminist self-sufficiency. The play that ‘Raisin in the Sun’ overshadowed finally gets its due 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z There are several answers to this, but the most interesting, to my mind, is that the older Yellowjackets harbor none of the anxieties that compel our male antiheroes to prove that they’re powerful. Review | Has ‘Yellowjackets’ bitten off more than it can chew? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z This might be textbook antihero stuff if a redemption story weren’t supplied to make him sympathetic: Jack is also suddenly trying to help the son he abandoned years earlier by hiring and mentoring him. Review | ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ wants to dream but makes you snore 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “Black Adam” star Dwayne Johnson campaigned hard for a sequel to his antihero passion project after middling box office returns but couldn’t get the green light. DC Studios slate unveiled: James Gunn and Peter Safran’s plan to unify the comic book empire 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z But this brown antihero is resplendent and relatable. In ‘Wakanda Forever,’ Black filmmakers did right by Indigenous peoples 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z He is not a villain but more of an antihero whose skill set made him more relevant than his personality ever could. Kevin Durant still just wants to hoop. The game demands more. 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z What if there were several antiheroes, in fact? Review | Has ‘Yellowjackets’ bitten off more than it can chew? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z He and Perry are trying to thread a narrow needle, making a selfish, short-sighted doofus into a tragicomic antihero. Review: Quirky heist movie 'Four Samosas' revels in Artesia's Indian American community 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The heroes and antiheroes of the form bore those scars — tough and cynical in their dealings with the world but vulnerable to women and the tantalizing comforts of the domestic. Review: S.A. Cosby's reissued debut thriller proves he was a master from the start 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z It was an extraordinary admission — and made the live-event giant an antihero to Swift fans and regulators alike. Twitter’s Nest Gets a Little Emptier 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z James Poniewozik says the show’s creators, Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, “have crossbred a throwback Western with a modern antihero drama.” Viewing Party 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Johnson positioned Black Adam as more than a villain/antihero in someone else’s story when he pushed for the film to be a solo movie, with a separate origin from Zachary Levi’s Shazam. What that 'Black Adam' end credits scene means for the DC Extended Universe 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Swift is encouraging people to upload to YouTube Shorts a video of themselves sharing the traits that would make them an antihero. Taylor Swift drops ‘3am’ edition of ‘Midnights,’ music video 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Starring box office juggernaut Dwayne Johnson, “Black Adam,” opening Friday, is the titular antihero’s origin story, and will also introduce a new team of superheroes to the DC Extended Universe. Who is Black Adam and why should you care? A spoiler-free guide 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars in the antihero DC Comics film "Black Adam," and he is calling it his passion project. AT&T lifts profit forecast on travel rebound, demand for pricier plans 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In “Black Adam,” he’s ready to be an antihero. Power in the N.F.L. 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z In one telling scene, Black Adam stops for a moment to watch a television with Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name — an antihero model for Black Adam. Can the Rock steady the DC universe with ‘Black Adam’? 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z A journalist said that Yamagami has become a kind of romantic antihero for some people who have felt buffeted by economic and social forces. Your Monday Briefing: Protests Grow in Iran 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The actor, of Aztec and Purépecha origin, brings to life one of the oldest antiheroes in all of comics. Why 'Black Panther's' new antagonist, Namor, isn't just 'another Aquaman' 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z There are few, if any, big, all-audience movies coming from movie studios until the October release of “Black Adam,” starring Dwayne Johnson as a DC Comics antihero. Regal Cinemas owner files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid box office drought 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z |
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