There’s a tangle of peculiar storylines on the periphery of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” but maybe none as ...

Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the ra ...

Global success stories like 'The Secret Agent' and 'I'm Still Here' have reawakened a vibrant cinematic culture that goes back decades, but has been decimated by political shifts. Now its power ...

This Oscar-nominated thriller is now streaming on Netflix.

March is home to the 2026 Oscars, which makes it the perfect time for a handful of the most acclaimed nominees to make their ...

The Secret Agent takes place in 1977, midway through the Brazilian military dictatorship that began in 1964, when the country ...

Period drama "Train Dreams" took home the Spirit Awards win for best feature Sunday, as both it and "The Secret Agent" gathered momentum ahead of the Academy Awards. Other Spirit winners on Sunday ...

NEON has unveiled a new trailer and poster for “The Secret Agent,” the gripping Brazilian political thriller from writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, as the film continued its sprint from Cannes ...

To anatomise fear as fiction is to recognise its very real mechanics in the places we actually live, and that uncomfortable truth is what elevates ‘The Secret Agent’ above and beyond the year’s more s ...

Oscar-nominated casting director Gabriel Domingues explains how he scoured unexpected places for Kleber Mendonça Filho's ...

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 ...