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Richard Labonte

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Days of Heaven (1978) 93% EDIT “Thematically, it dares to subsume its plot and its character to that prettiness, chancing the illusion of little substance when in fact both the story and the people it is about are quirky and complex. ” – Ottawa Citizen Feb 4, 2026 Full Review My Bloody Valentine (1981) 39% EDIT “Director George Mihalka puts his young cast through lacklustre paces.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 28, 2026 Full Review French Connection II (1975) 83% EDIT “Hackman's superb performance makes Doyle's ordeal honestly cathartic.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Bite the Bullet (1975) 69% EDIT “Every fine cliche is treated with care and compassion; it's a film to feel good afterward.” – Ottawa Citizen Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Wiz (1978) 38% EDIT “Gee whiz is what The Wiz isn't. Cold and mechanical and ponderous is what The Wiz is.” – Ottawa Citizen Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Night Moves (1975) 78% EDIT “Hackman turns in a superlative performance.” – Ottawa Citizen May 28, 2025 Full Review Funny Lady (1975) 55% EDIT “Funny Lady is a livelier, more human sequel.” – Ottawa Citizen Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 93% EDIT “Like Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back is a movie to feel good about. It comes as close to being a perfect film -- a wondrous vision perfectly realized -- as any ever made.” – Ottawa Citizen Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Tommy (1975) 71% EDIT “It's just good rock music wedded to interesting pictures on a screen.” – Ottawa Citizen Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “Director Steven Spielberg has taken a pedestrian novel and crafted it into a will-be classic of cinematic terror.” – Ottawa Citizen Jul 2, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% EDIT “Director Badham and scriptwriters Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins get their message across ably enough, and offer some fine entertainment as a bonus.” – Ottawa Citizen Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% EDIT “Raging Bull is a stunning film, far beyond the impact of its gruesomely authentic ring scenes. It's the craft of film pitched high, the rarity of art reflecting life. ” – Ottawa Citizen Oct 10, 2023 Full Review 9 to 5 (1980) 70% EDIT “It bursts at the seams with witty wisdom and frolicsome fantasy. ” – Ottawa Citizen Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Annie Hall (1977) 97% EDIT “Allen is loose, relaxed and reassuringly funny. But Diane Keaton dominates the film, imparting a strong, comforting presence which balances Allen's chic neurosis.” – Ottawa Citizen Aug 25, 2022 Full Review Tess (1979) 81% EDIT “Tess is such a visual delight that its strength as a story might easily be overlooked. That it is as adept a telling of Thomas Hardy's tale as could be hoped is the bonus. ” – Ottawa Citizen Jun 16, 2022 Full Review Excalibur (1981) 73% EDIT “On every level, the stylish British director has wrought a wonderful fantasy. The film is awash with misty beauty, dressed in grays and golds and browns and baleful, brooding reds: a constant, recurring visual pleasure.” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 29, 2021 Full Review Hair (1979) 83% EDIT “It is not meant to be meaningful -- that was the pretense of the stage play. The screen version is meant only to be fun: funny and gentle and astonishing, a fantasy amalgam of exhilarating music, exciting dance, and impossible story.” – Ottawa Citizen Nov 8, 2021 Full Review A Touch of Zen (1971) 97% EDIT “Zen is a visual feast, thin on plot but stuffed with scene after outstanding scene made even more breathtaking by the camera's slow insistence on revealing the sheltered beauty of a flower as well as the stunning sweep of a desert plain.” – Ottawa Citizen Aug 2, 2021 Full Review The Blues Brothers (1980) 71% EDIT “But, for all those excesses. The Blues Brothers is jaunty enough often enough and joyous enough just enough to escape total disaster and to tantalize the determined.” – Ottawa Citizen Dec 21, 2020 Full Review
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