ROTTEN TOMATOES: Robert Abele

LISTING OF ALL REVIEWS & ARTICLES

A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE

BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4.5/5	Fido
4/5	Pusher
3.5/5	Go For Zucker
3/5	End of the Spear
2.5/5	Lemming
2/5	Annapolis
1.5/5	A Previous Engagement
1/5	Keeping Mum
0/5	Captivity

BEST REVIEWED
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4.5/5	Fido
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5	Captivity
1/5	Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe
1/5	Keeping Mum
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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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%
2/5	" It's a sympathetic notion, to be sure, but it leaves one feeling you're on the couch with Volterra, not on a roots quest." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 24, 2008	The Tree of Life (2008)	43%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 18, 2008	Last Stop For Paul (2008)	67%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2008	The Order of Myths (2008)	100%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	76%
No Rating	Click here to read article -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 18, 2008	Henry Poole Is Here (2008)	35%
1/5	" Pitched as a crypto-scientific yet sentimental satire about perception and reality, it's really just an unfunny, jumbled Charlie Kaufman-esque rip-off." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 17, 2008	Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe (2008)	n/a
4/5	" Quirky yet thoughtful." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 17, 2008	Moving Midway (2008)	95%
2/5	" If the makers were hoping they'd chronicled a metaphor for life's struggle, they probably weren't counting on the struggle being monotony." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 17, 2008	Morning Light (2008)	26%
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%
2/5	" A grim fantasy about a cloistered subterranean metropolis that wants to be both a kids' adventure and a dystopian finger-wag. That director Gil Kenan's second feature never quite succeeds as either is a shame for all the dazzling craftsmanship." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 10, 2008	City of Ember (2008)	49%
2.5/5	" Unfortunately, the emphasis on what God wants has a way of overwhelming who Caleb and Catherine are as characters." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 2, 2008	Fireproof (2008)	39%
2.5/5	" Shoot on Sight has good intentions but winds up a thematically simplistic, dryly plotted and perfunctorily shot melodrama, one of those movies where dialogue is there to categorize people, not parse the complexities of human beings." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 26, 2008	Shoot on Sight (2008)	25%
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%
1.5/5	" Aside from a few, thankfully, professionally acted performances, it too often carries the preachy, stilted aura of something you'd see in civics class or at a trade show." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 12, 2008	Proud American (2008)	11%
1.5/5	" The cast tries but rarely achieves an authenticity of emotional intimacy, as if everyone knows they're going to be cut away from -- how else to say it? -- prematurely." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 12, 2008	YPF (2008)	40%
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%
2/5	" With so many pointless detours ripping you away, the film feels as lamely digressive as the proverbial one-track guy whose head won't stop turning as each new temptation walks by." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 22, 2008	America The Beautiful (2008)	68%
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%
2/5	" Take is too enamored of its time-shifting gimmick and cheap suspense to ultimately have much impact." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008	Take (2008)	42%
	" *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%
1.5/5	" There's little indication, beyond the endlessly unfunny school humiliations and fogey-dom signposts (ha ha, he uses Old Spice), that the notion of a preteen codger is worth our sympathies." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008	Harold (2008)	27%
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%
1.5/5	" If, as Tolstoy observed, happy families are alike, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the Dublin-set film Red Roses and Petrol didn't get the message, being a dysfunctional clan movie that feels dispiritingly like all the others." -- Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2008	Red Roses and Petrol (2008)	9%
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%
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)	32%
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%
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)	26%
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%
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 & 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 (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%
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)	84%
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)	27%
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%
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%

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