Kleber Mendonça Filho’s paranoid thriller “The Secret Agent” is another strong contender for an Oscar, writes Tribune film ...

Born from the process of researching “Pictures of Ghosts” (a fact that becomes rewardingly self-evident over the course of its 158-minute runtime), “The Secret Agent” recreates 1977 Recife with even ...

At its best, spy cinema is one of the most engrossing and intense spectacles film has to offer. Whether it is in the form of the action-packed bombast and big set-piece splendor of the genre’s most ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...

Wagner Moura has picked up awards right and left for Brazil's Oscar hopeful "The Secret Agent." The dictatorship drama couldn ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Neon opens “The Secret Agent” in select theaters beginning November 26. In his 2023 essay film "Pictures of ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...