Skyfall She is all but the co-star of the film, with a lot of screen time, poignant dialogue, and a character who is far more complex and sympathetic than we expect in this series". Jenny McCartney, writing in "The Sunday Telegraph", agreed, describing Dench as "compellingly luminous" in the film, and the one that "the camera caresses most meaningfully and often". McCartney thought Javier Bardem played Silva "with worrisome élan", while Henry K Miller considered his character "the most authentically Bondian Bond villain in decades". A number of critics noted the strength of the supporting cast; Kim Newman found the "warmth
Skyfall that it was a film that had "some weight and complexity to it". "Variety" Peter DeBruge suggested that the film's greatest strength lay in its willingness to put as much focus on characterisation as it did action set-pieces, allowing the two to co-exist rather than compete for the audience's attention, while Manohla Dargis, reviewing for "The New York Times", considered "Skyfall" to be "a superior follow-up to "Casino Royale"" which is "opulent rather than outlandish and insistently, progressively low-key". Kim Newman, reviewing the film for "Empire", concluded, ""Skyfall" is pretty much all you could want from a 21st Century Bond: