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Category: Review

From Uprising to Manhunt: “Free Borders, Free Bodies” and the Political Drift of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

September 29, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura “Free borders, free bodies, free choices, free fucking fear!” Perfidia (Teyana Taylor) spits at Col. Steven J.…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Refuge and Ruse: Ego’s Underwritten Romance in French Lover

September 28, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura French Lover frames the film set as a fairy-tale enclave—à la Notting Hill—where cinema becomes both refuge and ruse.…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Bau, Artist at War: A Heroic Life Reduced to Hollow Reverence

September 25, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Sean McNamara’s Bau, Artist at War attempts to capture the remarkable life of Joseph Bau—a Holocaust survivor, document forger,…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

Amélie Bonnin’s Musicals “Partir un jour”: Gendered Gaze, Unsung Love, Loosely Held Threads

September 21, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Updated on October 31, 2025 With Partir un jour (Leave One Day, feature’s English title), French writer-director Amélie Bonnin returns…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Jordan Peele’s Him: When Greatness and Storytelling Both Collapse Under Pressure

September 18, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In Him (2025), director Justin Tipping and producer Jordan Peele deliver a surreal, psychologically charged descent into…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Swiped: No Match Found — A Biopic That Misses the Mark

September 13, 2025 hudmoura

Rachel Lee Goldenberg’s tech biopic tries to swipe right on feminist heroism, but leaves behind an empty profile.

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Posted in: Biopic, Cinema, Film Review, Hollywood, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

The Cost of Heaven: A Parable of Illusions, Risk, and Financial Desperation

September 12, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Co-written by director Mathieu Denis, The Cost of Heaven (Gagne ton ciel, Québec, 2025) is a taut,…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura, Quebec Cinema

The Weight of Wit: Transatlantic Comedy and Marital Cruelty in The Roses

August 30, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Jay Roach—whose career toggles between broad American farce (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents) and sober topical drama (Bombshell)—returns…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

Cozy Crimes, British Wit: Senior Agency in The Thursday Murder Club

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by Hudson Moura Directed by Chris Columbus—best known for American box-office hits such as Home Alone (1990) and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)—The Thursday Murder…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Analysis, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

Eenie Meanie: Fast, Furious, and a Bit Flimsy

August 22, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Written and directed by Shawn Simmons, Eenie Meanie is a gender-flipped car-chase thriller that never quite decides whether it…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Vanessa Kirby’s Netflix Psychological Thriller ‘Night Always Comes’: A Gritty but Predictable Descent into Survival and Trauma

August 15, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Directed by Benjamin Caron and written by Sarah Conradt, Night Always Comes (2025) is an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hudson Moura

The Fantastic Four First Steps: Retro-Futurist Heroics and the Mathematics of Family

July 26, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) is a daring blend of nostalgic pastiche and futuristic spectacle, reinventing…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Hollywood, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura, Superhero

Truth, Justice, and Geopolitics: James Gunn’s Bold Reframing of Superman

July 21, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In Superman (2025), written and directed by James Gunn, the iconic Kryptonian returns not just to save…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura, Superhero

M3GAN 2.0: From Killer Doll to Cyber-Savior

June 30, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In M3GAN 2.0 (2025), director Gerard Johnstone leans fully into the techno-paranoia and dark humor that made the original…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: franchise, Horror, Hudson Moura, sequel

Celine Song’s Materialists: Valuing Love in a World of Worth

June 19, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura In Materialists, Canado-Korean playwright-turned-filmmaker Celine Song (Past Lives) returns with a romantic dramedy that cleverly interrogates the tensions…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Voice, Body, Rebellion: Ney Matogrosso’s Dazzling Ballad on Netflix

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by Hudson Moura In Latin Blood: The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (Homem com H, Brazil, 2025), director Esmir Filho crafts a…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Brazilian Cinema, Hudson Moura, LGBTQ+, Queer cinema

Bride Hard: A Misfired Mashup of Action Tropes and Wedding Clichés

June 17, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura With a title that playfully riffs on Die Hard, Bride Hard arrives as an action-comedy hybrid that attempts to blend…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Top 5 Best Films of 2024

December 31, 2024 hudmoura

Hudson Moura As a film critic for Radio-Canada, I am embracing a new approach to my reviews. While I typically…

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Posted in: Best Of, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: French Cinema, Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Marcello Mio: A Daughter’s Struggle to Disinhabit the Myth of Mastroianni

November 24, 2024 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Christophe Honoré’s Marcello Mio is an ambitious yet uneven cinematic exploration of legacy, identity, and the shadow cast by…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: French Cinema, Hudson Moura, Marcello Mastroianni

Film Analysis: Emotion and Conflict

February 23, 2021 hudmoura

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Analysis, Film Review, Media & Politics, Philosophy & Film, Politics & Film, Reflections, Review Filed under: Film

Intermedias Review

October 9, 2019 hudmoura

Media, Art, and Culture ISSN 1918-4026 Intermedias Review is an independent publication based on reviews of art, media, and their interconnections. We…

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Posted in: Art Review, Book Review, Brazilian Cinema, Brazilian Literature, Brazilian Theatre, Essay, Film Review, Interview, Media & Politics, Philosophy & Film, Politics & Film, Portuguese Literature, Review, Screening & Debate

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