Word: puppyish
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...implausibility almost doesn't matter. Downey approaches Lopez as a sort of journalistic Michael Clayton, swapping George Clooney's suits for sweatshirts, and he's in perfect control of this bruised, cynical but good-hearted character. Though there are moments when Foxx's Ayers veers toward the puppyish, overall, it's a touching performance, and the best thing he's done since Ray. (Read a profile of Jamie Foxx...
...OBVIOUSLY HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. I got very much into him and liked him, sympathized with him, even admired him. He's in some ways like me as I remember myself. But he's more pious and more cool, more composed. Not this disheveled, eager-to-please, puppyish adolescent, which is my image of myself. He's not so puppyish. He has a deadly streak...
...their fate, an astonishing evocation of the terrors of the slave ships' notorious Middle Passage--Spielberg permits himself time to explore every aspect of his saga in rich detail. And he grants his actors--among them a warily compassionate Morgan Freeman as a black abolitionist; Matthew McConaughey as a puppyish lawyer growing into an attack dog; Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, bent with age and crotchets, but finally lending his eloquence to the cause--a similar latitude. It's a shame that Amistad's release has been polluted with charges of plagiarism, for what's on the screen...
...jolt of renewed self-esteem and left foreign manufacturers struggling in the dust. Even looking backward, it is not clear why. Maybe the baby boomers, grown thick in the waist, were bored with being sensible. Without any question--the brief dawn a few years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf or Ford Escort said nothing whatsoever. Did we need talking cars? Apparently: a Jeep with a mountain bike or kayak rack...
...Marc Sherman, the teacher and student re-enact their encounter in parallel recollections. Rapp rampages through both, first as a bratty seducer who hides doubts about his sexuality by swiveling his hips, shaking a finger cockily in the professor's face, tearing off his own clothes and collapsing in puppyish self-pity, then as a mute but furious victim. His vengeance gives Pendleton a career moment too. Reduced to a job as Santa, he stands disheveled, muttering the words of one Christmas carol while hearing the tune of another. The moment is brief but perfect -- a lesson by established talent...