For 1,597 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robert Abele's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Donbass
Lowest review score: 0 Detention of the Dead
Score distribution:
1597 movie reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Abele
    It’s as absorbing as a caper, as maddening as a broken romance, and as thought-provoking as an impassioned editorial.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Abele
    Ultimately, Ferrara makes a convincing case for being Pasolini’s biographical caretaker, one troublemaker looking after another’s legacy, albeit with a more serious, thoughtful approach than a transgressive one.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Abele
    By keeping things short, sweet and dutifully tuneful, Echo in the Canyon is like the doc version of one of the period’s sonic nuggets, leaving you with a peace/love/understanding high and a desire to break out the vinyl for more of the same.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Abele
    Joy
    Both riveting character study and experiential glimpse at the Africa-to-Europe sex slave trade, Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai’s “Joy” builds its reservoir of sadness with pulsing efficiency.

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