Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Secret Agent, which is nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor ...

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

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” white text reads as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle pulls into a gas ...

Drenched in sex and death, “The Secret Agent” peers into the past in order to make sense of the present. The latest film from celebrated Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho starts with a ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Catching up on all of the Best Picture movies nominated for the 2026 Oscars just got a little easier, because the Brazilian political thriller, The Secret Agent, is now ...

Two months after its theatrical release, Brazilian neo-noir thriller The Secret Agent is said to be heading to the digital streaming space very soon. Written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, the ...

In a stacked year for international features headlined by Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice and Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner It Was Just an Accident, Brazil's political thriller darling The Secret ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Catching up on all of the Best Picture movies nominated for the 2026 Oscars just got a little easier, because the Brazilian political thriller, The Secret Agent, is now ...

Ever since the continuing rise of the blockbuster, especially in our Marvelized era, there has been something of a dearth of truly mature and adult thrillers. This has been especially true for ...