‘The Secret Agent’ Review: A Brazilian Tale of Crime and Corruption

Kleber Mendonça Filho directs a rich, exciting epic about a persecuted scientist in 1977 Brazil, when the country was under a ...

The Secret Agent and the Year in Movies About Resistance

Kleber Mendoça Filho’s incredible new film joins several of the year’s best in depicting the cost of being on the wrong side ...

Movie Review: Wagner Moura is on the run in Brazil, 1977, in 'The Secret Agent'

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

‘The Secret Agent’ Is Brazil’s Oscar Submission for A Reason

This political thriller starring Narcos' Wagner Moura doubles as a personal look back in anger at the past, and a reminder ...
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For Wagner Moura and His Director, Brazil’s Oscar Entry ‘The Secret Agent’ Wasn’t Supposed to Be Political — Until It Was

Cannes winners Kleber Mendonça Filho and star Wagner Moura dig into their '70s portrait of an ordinary man targeted by the Brazilian dictatorship. The film is resonating with Academy voters. The 2026 ...
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‘The Secret Agent’s Kleber Mendonça Filho And Wagner Moura On Brazil’s Urban Legend Of The Hairy Leg: “It Hops And Kicks” – Cannes Studio

After the world premiere of The Secret Agent in Cannes, actor Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho and others connected with the film did a joyous dance down the Croisette. That gives you ...