Judi Dench is probably incapable of being bad, but M is a real character this time, with emotions, as well as convictions, and she hits every note just so.

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If you're new to wine, Pinot Grigio may not be a bad place to start, as its fairly neutral character won't startle the palate, and it is a good jumping-off point for further exploration.

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The prosecution had used a change in the law to introduce so-called bad character evidence at the retrial.

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The evidence at the centre of the appeal would have been "but one further facet of bad character in this case of which the jury had a great deal".

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He was then cast as Hawkeye, an ace archer, in the huge summer movie The Avengers. (He had shown up earlier in a Hawkeye cameo in Thor.) But with the huge cast that included Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, his character was marginalized and spent much of the film has a hypnotized bad guy.

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So poorly defined is he that a supporting character actually chimes in late in the game to explain that he really is a bad-ass after all.

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Piven: "Very Bad Things" was the first time I ever felt in a movie that I really had a character with an arc ... that I got to be constructing.

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True, the film has yet to accrue the kind of cult fanbase which has developed around Tommy Wiseau's so-bad-it's-amazing "The Room" -- a movie referenced in "MacGruber" -- but that may be because it's not that bad (for the record, this reporter supports any project in which Val Kilmer plays a character called "Dieter Von Cunth").

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Black Mask is a character whose true identity is Roman Sionis, a wealthy businessman who hates Bruce Wayne, and who is bad at legitimate business but has a knack for criminal business and who is obsessed with destroying Bruce Wayne.

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