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ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES
January 23, 2016  | By David Bianculli

BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Alan Rickman, who died last week at age 69, was most famous for playing villains – and among those villains, most famous of all for opposing Bruce Willis in the first Die Hard and for playing Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films. But here’s another example, where he plays an excellent villain in a less than excellent movie: 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, in which he plays the Sheriff of Nottingham to Kevin Costner’s Robin.

 
 
 
 
 
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