Upon first glance, Jeremy Workman’s Secret Mall Apartment tells a bizarre story about artists who created and lived in an apartment in their local mall. But at its core, the film offers unique ...
To anatomise fear as fiction is to recognise its very real mechanics in the places we actually live, and that uncomfortable ...
Taking place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, 'The Secret Agent' follows Armando Solimoes (Wagner Moura), a ...
Set against the quiet fear of dictatorship, the film follows a father trying to escape a past that refuses to let him go. It ...
The Secret Agent examines the surreal and very real ways in which the Brazilian dictatorship is oppressing its subjects. The ...
Opinion writer Clara Resende reviews The Secret Agent. As a Brazilian-American, Resende thoroughly enjoyed the film as it ...
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s semi-satirical thriller The Secret Agent looks back with incredulity, disgust, and ambiguous ...
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 ...
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'The Secret Agent' review: The dense, sociopolitical tale the cinematic world needs more of
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 ...
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 ...
“This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive,” said Matt Zoller Seitz in RogerEbert.com. An award winner at Cannes, the sixth feature from Brazilian writer-director Kleber ...
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