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Robert Abele

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Film Critic, LA Weekly

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A Private Life (2025) 81% EDIT “It also leaves one realizing that “A Private Life,” despite the commanding leading lady holding its center, is a bit mixed up by design.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “What obviously matters to Stewart is the totality of experience and “The Chronology of Water,” arty and naturalistic in equal measure, is no toe-dip into directing — it’s deep-end stuff from start to finish. ” – Los Angeles Times Jan 10, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “What is being presented instead is a remembrance and a plea to keep the fires of moral urgency lighted. ” – Los Angeles Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “The highs and lows of marriage aren’t merely a punch line in “Is This Thing On?” — and that’s good.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 81% EDIT “Most assuredly, though, this is a duo of director and star once more moving in concert together, maybe not as confidently as with some previous efforts, but with a knowing intelligence.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Zodiac Killer Project (2025) 90% EDIT “Shackleton’s perspective is still an intriguing, worthy provocation regarding our cultural bloodlust.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% EDIT “There are lessons to be learned from the modest goals of this “Merrily We Roll Along”: to bring a movie audience to the life of the stage and, in so doing, to those thorny stages of life.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “As good as Teller is as a husband in crisis, the Oscar-winning Randolph is her own commanding source of light, enough to sell this movie’s feel-good abstracts and wry commentaries on her own.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Out of Plain Sight (2024) EDIT ““Out of Plain Sight” doesn’t need to be earthshaking filmmaking to relay a valuable ongoing story about a hidden nightmare for all of us. ” – Los Angeles Times Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “You’ll feel loss, but the afterimage of this singular woman’s belief in finding light is what will burn.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% EDIT “It’s all highlights and lowlights, rarely interested in the in-between stuff that makes watching all the rounds of a bout so necessary to appreciating what it means to survive on the canvas.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% EDIT “The result is a window into the pleasures of friendship and those days when the minutiae of your loved ones seems like the stuff that true connection is built on.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% EDIT “As often as you may be tickled by its fanged silliness, you’ll also be drained. ” – Los Angeles Times Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Shelby Oaks (2023) 55% EDIT “The horror greats always knew how to mix the schlocky and the soul-churning. Let’s just say Stuckmann is still in the training-wheels phase.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% EDIT “It’s got heart, kind eyes, a wry smile and some funny lines, but no teeth when you really need things bitten into, chewed up and spit out.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT ““The Mastermind” is another precisely turned Reichardt movie: honest, sad, funny and inherently philosophical about our engagement with the world.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Roofman, with its breezy decency, knows how to finesse just the right amount of compassion for larceny.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT “O the most visceral level, a documentary horror film built with police footage, it also reveals how a violent tragedy can be unwittingly manifested by unchecked grievance and a law that weaponizes white fear more than it guards anyone’s peace.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue (2025) 81% EDIT “The movie ultimately treats us like adrenaline junkies, assuming we lack curiosity.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Alabama Solution (2025) 100% EDIT “The movie, its many strands brilliantly threaded for maximum impact, is also an argument for the necessity of independent inquiry, and for a reassessment of what a “true crime” documentary means when the lion’s share of attention goes to sensationalized.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s the kind of choice that’s easier to forgive in a movie so well-attuned to shifts in perception, one that dimensionalizes the problem of achieving clarity when leading a double life.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% EDIT “At its best, we understand why these people want to keep the lights on in a dark, unforgiving world.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “It answers Riefenstahl’s carefully chosen narrative, a fable of disillusioned purity, with an equally forensic counternarrative exposing her childlike narcissism about the impact of her talent. ” – Los Angeles Times Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% EDIT “Thankfully, nothing in “Spinal Tap II” will kill off the original’s legacy. It’s just a nostalgia lap you wish had more 11.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Love, Brooklyn (2025) 69% EDIT “It’s left to the cast to do the best sales job with this underdeveloped material.” – Los Angeles Times Sep 5, 2025 Full Review
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