There are no villains—or maybe life, or growing up, or getting older, is the villain.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
But watching Ready or Not 2, which comes from returning directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, I was consumed with how quaint its characterization of its villains was.
Mirrors were such a precious commodity in the heyday of the Venetian Republic that the assassins were dispatched to, well, dispatch any defectors who left La Serenissima and tried to take the secrets of creating that mesmerizing, reflective surface along with them.
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Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
17 Mar. 2026
Consider Bobbi, one of the assassins sent north to find Armando.
American gangsters ran the hotels and the gambling.
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Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
Kelly spends the first half of his book running through a who’s who of the New England underworld, gangsters and mob wannabes who likely came into contact with the art before the investigation reached Maine and Gentile.
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Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
22 Mar. 2026
Streetwise rogues in the mould of an enigmatic leader… there are certainly parallels between Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid and Tommy Shelby’s Peaky Blinders.
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Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
9 Mar. 2026
Old Eight Eighty—I Among all the rogues in history, no class has been more persistent than counterfeiters, and only thieves have been more numerous.
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