Robert Abele

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Oct 23, 2026 David Greaves’ “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is loving, indispensable history, unabashedly enjoyable. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2026 The filmmakers of “NAZA” make disturbingly clear is that the simplest machinery to spread dehumanization and death is happening now, easing its users into acceptance and rewriting everything about the moral cost of conflict. It’s stone-cold frightening. Go to Full Review NAZA (2026) 100% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Oct 2, 2026 Whether it proves anything is, of course, up for grabs, but it surely helps “Chronovisor” remain wonderfully unclassifiable. Go to Full Review Chronovisor (2026) 96% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Oct 2, 2026 Everybody to Kenmure Street is the ultimate what-did-I-miss movie, a life-affirming corrective, his respectful curiosity and everyone’s cherished memories in singular harmony. Go to Full Review Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) 100% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Sep 25, 2026 The gravitational joy of Wilson’s comic approach is watching how he follows his instincts and later applies his own sui generis mortar to the assembled vérité blocks. Go to Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 97% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Sep 22, 2026 The rickety CGI not its strong suit, “Hope” never quite follows through on its crafty first hour of peekaboo velocity. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 80% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Sep 14, 2026 The wonderful “Barbara Forever” is a testament to the true boldness of putting one’s self out there, noting what it feels like and not keeping it to yourself. There’s no other way to create an artistic legacy. Go to Full Review Barbara Forever (2026) 100% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Sep 8, 2026 The goal of a vibrant autopsy like this, after all, isn’t to reclaim a terrible movie as secretly great — even if the likes of Joe Dante, Karyn Kusama and some established film critics make a case to sample its madness. Go to Full Review Boorman and the Devil (2025) 98% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Sep 8, 2026 A tweaked, post-colonial revising of Dorothy’s Oz awakening. But despite a mischievous style, where an iron gleams like a talisman and a pine tree can look forlorn, it’s savagely serious about what’s in store globally — not just in the Philippines. Go to Full Review Filipiñana (2026) 90% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Sep 1, 2026 Even the most awkward parts of the film feel uniquely alive. Go to Full Review Dreams in Nightmares (2024) 100% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Sep 1, 2026 Enjoyably weird to the end, its horror soul in line with the creepypasta ethos of something undefined yet eternal. Go to Full Review Buddy (2026) 88% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Aug 14, 2026 The right mix of true and imagined can give the simplest of humane narratives — in this case, the possibility of renewal in an epidemic of hurt — a fresher chance to touch us. Go to Full Review Union County (2026) 95% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Aug 7, 2026 Maybe someday, Roth will temper his empty-calories instincts and make more of a meal out of his twisted ideas. Go to Full Review Ice Cream Man (2026) 25% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Jul 27, 2026 In our demonizing present, the story of such a pioneering truth-teller speaks powerfully to the needs of our blended American future. Go to Full Review American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) 96% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Jun 22, 2026 Mostly, “Girls Like Girls” wins us over with a singular type of first-film assuredness: a familiar story presented as the most personal reveal ever. Go to Full Review Girls Like Girls (2026) 88% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Jun 22, 2026 We already know what’s out there, ready to do harm. This movie’s nail-biting, sorrowful power comes from what internalized destruction looks like. Go to Full Review Leviticus (2026) 93% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Jun 8, 2026 Time and Water is a curiously vibrant elegy, teeming with appreciation for the intimate majesty that is all life, generational and geologic. Go to Full Review Time and Water (2026) 91% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026 Most notably, Berger, whose life inspired the film, is a natural, easy to root for and an ideal center for a movie with a warmhearted view of life as best appreciated when you can set aside your hang-ups and adopt the occasional stray. Go to Full Review Burt (2025) - - - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026 It’s the genre equivalent of an airbag that deploys already half-deflated. Go to Full Review Passenger (2026) 44% - -

Robert Abele Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026 One of the movie’s strong points, absent its story deficiencies, is that, across its many wordless scenes, it’s at heart a solidly rousing, delightfully icky creature feature, in the vein of a supercharged Ray Harryhausen-meets-Guillermo del Toro joint. Go to Full Review Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) 60% - -