ROTTEN TOMATOES: Robert Abele

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

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	Viva
	Hats Off
	Constantine's Sword
	Dare Not Walk Alone: A War of Responsibility
	A Bloody Aria
	Your Mommy Kills Animals
	Angels in the Dust
	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
	Czech Dream
	The Bubble
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	A Previous Engagement
	Anamorph
	Jack and Jill vs. the World
	The Singing Revolution
	Reservation Road
	Dragon Wars
	Freshman Orientation
	Descent
	Captivity
	American Pastime
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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1.5/5	"Director Joan Carr-Wiggin intends to strike a blow for frustrated wives and mothers everywhere, but her unimaginative mixture of obvious farce and feeble midlife crisis harangues gives everything the whiff of interminable theater." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 9, 2008	A Previous Engagement (2008)	35%
3.5/5	"The movie pops with parodic joy--in the hoary double-entendres and presentational acting styles--and hotly lighted 35-millimeter cinematography that evokes lounge music album covers and Playboy ads." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 8, 2008	Viva (2008)	63%
3.5/5	"If you're not tickled and stirred by the sight of her 95-pound frame kicking off sheets and leaping out of bed to answer a phone -- a gig, maybe! -- then shame on you." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Hats Off (2008)	38%
1.5/5	"Director H.S. Miller thinks he's made something broodingly visionary when you're more likely to be aesthetically shaken up by one of Mad magazine's Fold-Ins." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2008	Anamorph (2008)	27%
3/5	"The movie covers an immense amount of shameful historical ground, but the soft-spoken Carroll's mission is less about winning an argument than prodding true believers" -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Constantine's Sword (2008)	75%
2/5	"Blind to the fact that it should be rising up against its own formulaic kind." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008)	14%
3/5	"Brock's story and the vivid remembrances of protesters...Clumsier is Dean's attempt to revive calls for social justice regarding today's poverty-stricken West St. Augustine." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008	Dare Not Walk Alone: A War of Responsibility (2008)	100%
3/5	"*For the most part A Bloody Aria* has an adept way of muddying these themes for audiences expecting the usual gore-thirsty trip.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jan 17, 2008	A Bloody Aria (2006)	44%
2/5	"The Singing Revolution might ignite history buffs, but for musicphiles, it's unfortunately a one-note symphony." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007	The Singing Revolution (2007)	86%
2/5	"Grief has rarely seemed so ordinary." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 19, 2007	Reservation Road (2007)	36%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2007	The Bubble (2006)	38%
4/5	"Perhaps the greatest service Johnson does is to turn the event that spurred him to make the film -- the FBI labeling animal rights activists the top domestic terrorist threat -- into a crucial dialogue." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 3, 2007	Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)	91%
4/5	"Writer-director Louise Hogarth shrinks an enormous issue down to human terms..." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 28, 2007	Angels in the Dust (2007)	82%
1.5/5	"*The rampaging-monsters flick Dragon Wars* loudly speaks the universal language of effects-laden mayhem. Unfortunately, it is also fluent in the laughable dialogue of a million bad fantasy flicks.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Sep 17, 2007	Dragon Wars (2007)	25%
3/5	"You might wish this speed-limit-safe exercise in Woody Allen-esque urban romantic neuroses had taken jazzier comic risks." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 14, 2007	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007)	74%
3/5	"The film wavers between nervous dread for the unsuspecting public and sheer gall at the number of consultants who agreed to help sell something nonexistent (for money, of course)." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	Czech Dream (2007)	82%
3.5/5	"[Fox] gives his beautiful dreamers plenty of leeway to win us over." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 7, 2007	The Bubble (2007)	55%
2.5/5	"...too often feels more like a tapped-out keg than a provocative romp." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Freshman Orientation (2007)	33%
3/5	"Brief bits of real charm, personality and camp-life detail squeeze through, suggesting why some thrive in an oasis of animal worship, outdoor revelry and zero-to-hero popularity that forgives a nerdy rep back home." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 31, 2007	Summercamp! (2007)	77%
1.5/5	"It's indie provocation trapped between shock and blah." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 9, 2007	Descent (2007)	24%
0/5	"A spirit-sapping exercise in female degradation fantasy." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 13, 2007	Captivity (2007)	7%
4/5	"Tekkonkinkreet, for all its architecturally grimy virtuosity and flourishes of anime cool, remains the story of a damaged city that can still point to one mighty example of brotherly love." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 12, 2007	Tekkon Kinkreet (2007)	72%
4.5/5	"A crafty mixture of George Romero and Douglas Sirk, Fido is a boy and his zombie movie that may have an unusually pastoral color scheme but tears into its many satirical targets with the vigor of a freshly reborn flesh-eater." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 14, 2007	Fido (2007)	67%
3.5/5	"*Ultimately, Election* and Triad Election -- which benefit from being seen back to back -- play like a mature reevaluation of [Johnnie] To's long-standing talent for splashy, eye-popping violence.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 8, 2007	Election (2005)	86%
4/5	"Like any good sequel, this film takes what is familiar with the original's concept -- in this case, an internecine struggle for supremacy -- and deepens it." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 8, 2007	Triad Election (2007)	96%
	"With such rich material about dreams deferred, it�s disheartening that co-writer�director Desmond Nakano�s nobly made but patchy drama mires itself in nostalgia tropes and storytelling clich�s." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 10, 2007	American Pastime ()	38%
4/5	"The story it tells is a shattering mystery of violation and loss, if only because by the end, certain answers only lead to more punishing questions." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 10, 2007	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007)	83%
3/5	"*If Pusher III* is the trilogy's least effective, that may be because the soured-deal plot line is by now a given, and its theme is the simplest.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Nov 2, 2006	Pusher 3 (2006)	100%
3.5/5	"In Refn's skilled street-realist hands, the child becomes a potent, wailing metaphor for Tonny's own dilemma of rudderless need." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 2, 2006	Pusher 2 (2006)	100%
4/5	"The film practically vibrates with youthful aggression, sly humor and gathering tension, hurling itself forward like a junkie toward the next fix." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 2, 2006	Pusher (1999)	77%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 30, 2006	4 (2006)	81%
3/5	"What's almost refreshing about Phillips' approach to comedy... is that he and co-writer Scot Armstrong like the classically unfettered fun of a silly bit played to the hilt." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 29, 2006	School for Scoundrels (2006)	25%
1/5	"*Where Ealing comedies used to have full command of irony, Keeping Mum* is weirdly clueless.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Sep 28, 2006	Keeping Mum (2006)	55%
	"*It�s a low-boil affair from the Office Space* auteur that wears out its dumb-and-dumbest playbook early on.*" -- L.A. Weekly* Posted Sep 5, 2006	Idiocracy (2006)	70%
	"An exhaustive, ruminative, angry and even occasionally gallows-humorous account of the strange domino effect of tragedy compounding incompetence compounding tragedy that dealt a critical blow to one of America�s great cities." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 22, 2006	When the Levees Broke (2006)	96%
2/5	"The swirl of bad girl shenanigans, Hollywood satire and noir-ish melodrama in Mini's First Time that was intended to make for an icy cocktail of prurience and moral insight tastes more like freezer burn instead." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 14, 2006	Mini's First Time (2006)	54%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 24, 2006	The Long Weekend (2006)	n/a
1.5/5	"*A film with movement-sparking rather than moviemaking on its mind, Revoloution* is a hopelessly muddled example of inspirational indie cinema.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 9, 2006	RevoLOUtion (2006)	18%
2.5/5	"The theme is hidden desire, but the trip feels like a stale museum tour of the usual psychodrama tropes -- voyeurism, ghosts, sexual fantasy, dream imagery, murder -- without the goose-bumps-on-your-brain payoff." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 3, 2006	Lemming (2006)	70%
2/5	"*The sage-elder/wayward-charge saga Peaceful Warrior* aims for inspirational highs but mostly feels like a self-help book read aloud by actors.*" -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jun 2, 2006	Peaceful Warrior (2006)	23%
2/5	"*... I see no originality in See No Evil." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted May 23, 2006	See No Evil (2006)	7%
1.5/5	"Hafstr�m's dramatic sense is ... pedestrian and snail's-pace obvious." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 1, 2006	Evil (2003)	68%
	"It�s all a treacly, shoddily assembled, underwritten mess." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 30, 2006	Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2006)	24%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 25, 2006	Gilles' Wife (2006)	82%
3.5/5	"Go for Zucker! has one comic trope our capitalist society can definitely understand: the restorative power of a cash bonanza." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 25, 2006	Go For Zucker (2004)	55%
2/5	"... the family film vibe doesn't suit a manic-tempered comic such as Lawrence, whose fat suit and septuagenarian makeup can't hide his obvious boredom in delivering more of the same wheezing insults and down-home advice." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 26, 2006	Big Momma's House 2 (2006)	5%
2/5	"Neither lagging military recruitment nor movie attendance is likely to be helped by Annapolis, a by-the-numbers underdog drama set at the storied U.S. Naval Academy in the Maryland port of the title." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 26, 2006	Annapolis (2006)	10%

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