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Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film blends human moments and true tension in a film set in tumultuous 1977 Brazil as a scientist ...

A research scientist is on the run from hitmen in this thrilling film. Set in 1977 Brazil, The Secret Agent captures the ...

Armando Solimões, the mournful-eyed central character played by Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, isn’t a government operative, despite the title of the film. He also isn’t undercover, exactly, though ...

Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s miliary dictatorship. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

The protagonist of “The Secret Agent” isn’t a secret agent; he only lives like one. The reason for his clandestine maneuvering is apparent from the film’s first scene, when he pulls into a gas station ...

The past is never the past is never the past — especially if you lived in Brazil in 1977, “a period of great mischief.” That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça ...

Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind. It has a strong personality and visual style and moves to its own mysterious rhythms. It won’t go to you ...

American audiences can get a taste of Brazilian history this holiday weekend with the upcoming U.S. release of The Secret Agent, a new historical political thriller that will be Brazil entry into the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Thisimage released by Neon shows Wagner Moura in a ...

Cinematographer Evgenia Alexandrova tells IndieWire about bringing documentary principles and handheld intuition to Kleber Mendonça Filho's '70s thriller. Evgenia Alexandrova, the Russian-born, ...

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 ...