ROTTEN TOMATOES: Robert Abele

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3.5/5	" An undeniably shattering story, if forgivably shaky in its impassioned, therapeutic unfolding." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 7, 2008	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)	98%
4/5	" Quirky yet thoughtful." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 17, 2008	Moving Midway (2008)	95%
3/5	" All in all, Call + Response makes alarmingly clear how ugly, pervasive and out-in-the-open the trade in humans for sex or labor often is, from the expected places -- Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia -- to our own backyard." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 10, 2008	Call + Response (2008)	80%
3/5	" As the story of a wallowing pig, Choke is often pretty entertaining, but when it comes to where-do-I-come-from poignancy, it can't always keep from gagging." -- Chicago Tribune Posted Sep 26, 2008	Choke (2008)	55%
3/5	" Lakeview Terrace is a serviceable enough popcorn exercise in a few floundering Angelenos who can't just get along." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 19, 2008	Lakeview Terrace (2008)	44%
3.5/5	" [Director] Price keeps the humor believably shallow and the movie from getting too far from the aim of chronicling an exclusivity junkie's fall." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 12, 2008	The Doorman (2008)	28%
3.5/5	" Although it's nice to see Mackenzie find uplift in the erotic, what helps drive Mister Foe is how deftly he turns chasm into intimacy between Bell and Myles, both of whom give sharply observed, charismatic portrayals." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 5, 2008	Mister Foe (2008)	72%
3.5/5	" Bustin' Down the Door entertainingly captures surfing's last great hoorah of no-holds-barred radicalism." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Bustin' Down the Door (2008)	60%
	" *The Australian charmer Kenny, about a hard-working, jovial employee for a portable toilet company, is a low-key study of underdog pride rather than a Larry the Cable Guy bodily function jokefest." -- Los Angeles Times* Posted Jul 18, 2008	Kenny (2008)	100%
3/5	" A dark piece of whimsy that enchants and befuddles in equal measure." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Kabluey (2008)	88%
3.5/5	" The bounty of incident is balanced by knowing humor, compelling characters and a dedicated compassion toward those for whom the search for home sends their head, heart and feet flying in all directions." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Live and Become (2008)	83%
3.5/5	" Without the King transitions nicely from standard operating crisis report to a portrait of a hopeful political awakening." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 20, 2008	Without the King (2008)	94%
4/5	" By the end, the beautifully shot Wonders Are Many has both probed issues of moral responsibility and scientific curiosity, and paid homage to the strange transcendence that can attend any anticipation of a thing created." -- Los Angeles Times Posted May 30, 2008	Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008)	83%
	" Roach gets a lot of suspenseful mileage out of these ping-ponging reversals of fortune." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 27, 2008	Recount (2008)	75%
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)	65%
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)	43%
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)	86%
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 (2008)	86%
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)	46%
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%
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)	72%
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)	56%
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%
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)	68%
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%
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)	90%
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%
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)	24%
	" 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%
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%
3/5	" The slickly produced Christian docudrama End of the Spear recounts with spiritual breathlessness the circumstances surrounding the real-life killings of five missionaries at the hands of a violent indigenous Amazon tribe in Ecuador in 1956." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 19, 2006	End of the Spear (2006)	42%
	" What distinguishes this freewheeling, strangely honest comedy (directed by first-timer Nicholaus Goossen) is its puff-and-pass-it-along view, an inviting, goofy-grin attitude toward insular losers." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 7, 2006	Grandma's Boy (2006)	16%
	" Although he damn near slanders an entire country - - expect poor Slovakia�s tourism industry to take a hit - - Roth is not an unskilled ringleader of gory crisis moments, or breathless escapes." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 5, 2006	Hostel (2006)	59%
	" The real case made by co-directors Patrick Paulson and Michael John Warren in this routinely assembled live document is that, onstage, Jay-Z's dominance is no fluke." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 4, 2004	Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004)	63%
	" This is a quick-witted, smartly poignant effort from someone who's earned his indie cred and has hit upon a rich new vein for counterculture comedy: slacker desperation." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 4, 2004	Scumrock (2002)	60%
	" It's hard to not feel a measure of warmth for the determined optimism of his enterprise, especially since [Camp] hasn't lost the touch for cute dog antics." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 19, 2004	Benji Off the Leash (2004)	32%
	" Can now be appreciated not just as a minor classic of tragic destruction, but also as a somber exploration of conflicted postwar emotions." -- L.A. Weekly Posted May 12, 2004	Gojira (1954)	93%
	" After all these years, the pungency of this satire about the perils of mass miscommunication hasn't dissipated." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 29, 2004	Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)	98%
	" Trades in easygoing humor to peddle its message of bigheartedness." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 22, 2004	Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004)	52%
	" Agreeably gripping coming-of-age thriller." -- L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 8, 2004	I'm Not Scared (2004)	92%

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