Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky.  An utterly loathsome cad, but whenever he's on the page it's impossible to stop reading.  (Well, at least for the first half of Anna Karenina — then he's outpaced as a love-to-hate character by Karenin.)

AAAAAARGH, C'MON, FUCK A GUY:  
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Man, this article and the AV Club are good.

P.S.:  Anyone who wants to see a really good movie about the 90s Yugoslav wars — which, never fear, has nary a trace of torture porn — should check out Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Lepa sela lepo gore).  Mind you, that one's also got its problems with pro-Serb bias, but still, it's a fantastic, haunting movie (and…

There's enough condescending missing-the-point going on here to make Armond White blush.  (In the comments, that is, not Scott's review — I don't think Scott was being at all condescending or smug, I just think he misread the film.)