The 20 Greatest Secret Agent Movies of All Time, Ranked

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

Director Kleber Mendonça Filho on How Wagner Moura Was ‘Tailor-Made’ to Carry ‘The Secret Agent’

IndieWire Honors: Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho was confident the Performance Award recipient Wagner Moura was the "great artist" needed to "unite our so many characters" in "The Secret ...
Variety

‘The Secret Agent’ Director Kleber Mendonça Filho Says Hollywood Must ‘Draw a Line’ With Streaming if ‘They Want to Keep Filmgoing Alive’

Kleber Mendonça Filho, whose latest film “The Secret Agent” represents Brazil in the international feature film race at the Oscars, sounded the alarm on the disruptive impact of “streaming culture” on ...
Newsday

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 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...
Decider

Is ‘The Secret Agent’ Movie Streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu?

American audiences can get a taste of Brazilian history this holiday weekend with the upcoming U.S. release of The Secret Agent, a new historical political thriller that will be Brazil entry into the ...
Deadline.com

‘Hamnet’, ‘The Secret Agent’, ‘Eternity’ Take Holiday Bow, Plus More Indies Set For Weekend – Specialty Preview

TIFF People’s Choice Award Winner Hamnet, Cannes-decorated The Secret Agent and afterlife romcom Eternity have settled into theaters for the Thanksgiving frame with Friday set to usher in another wave ...
Rolling Stone

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

The past is never the past is never the past — especially if you lived in Brazil in 1977, “a period of great mischief.” That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça ...
The New York Times

‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Carnival in the Face of Carnage

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 ...
NPR

Let 'The Secret Agent' fill you in on what it's like to live under a dictatorship

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...
Los Angeles Times

He’s no James Bond, but in ‘The Secret Agent,’ an ordinary man has a score to settle

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Drenched in sex and death, “The Secret Agent” peers into the past in order to make sense of the present. The ...
Boston Herald

Moura rides Oscar buzz for ‘The Secret Agent’

“The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s entry for this year’s Best International Film Oscar nomination, arrives in Boston Friday on the heels of last year’s multiple Brazilian Oscar nominee “I’m Still Here” as ...