In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, ...

Ranging from all-time classics like Goldfinger to modern gems like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, these secret agents movies are ...

The longer you spend in Mendonça Filho’s vivid capture of urban Brazil under the repressive rule of a military dictatorship — ...

The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming ...

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

NEON has shared the first teaser trailer for The Secret Agent, the upcoming political thriller movie that hails from Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. Following its world premiere at the 2025 ...

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

In “The Secret Agent,” audiences will meet hit men, zombie legs, corrupt cops, a two-headed cat and a quiet man who is ...

Even the housecat is two-faced in The Secret Agent, a culmination of career-long fascinations for Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Set in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 ...

The Secret Agent” sounds like the title of a pulpy thriller from the 1970s that played on the bottom of a cinema’s double bill. There’s a generic simplicity to those three words that should indicate a ...

THE SECRET AGENT. The Secret Agent is so easily pleasurable that its best parts get better while talking about them after ...