One joyously flourishes a flag, another dotes on an extremely long spear, and a drummer beams rugged confidence that we like his drumming.

NEWYORKER: New Amsterdam

It dotes on its lonely-guy heroes as they dote on themselves.

NEWYORKER: Chungking Express

At first it's easy to mistake "The American" for an exercise in vanity the worst kind of star vehicle, in which the camera dotes on the star.

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