Quentin Tarantino recently lashed out against Paul Dano, but that's far from the only controversial opinion that the ...

The Matrix was the perfect movie to end not just the 1990s but the millennium as a whole. Innovative, stylish, intelligent, intense - the Wachowskis delivered a perfect marriage of story, character, ...

More than 25 years after The Matrix, Lilly Wachowski is not surprised by the right-wing misinterpretation of her and sister Lana Wachowski’s magnum opus. After the movie’s mind-opening “red pill” ...

Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has told lawmakers in a closed-door interview his team “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” President Donald Trump criminally conspired to ...

“You’re telling me hit men are out to get me?” asks the baffled scientist Armando (Wagner Moura) in “The Secret Agent,” a tale from Brazil of murder, corruption, political intrigue, corporate ...

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 ...

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 ...

The protagonist of “The Secret Agent” isn’t a secret agent; he only lives like one. The reason for his clandestine maneuvering is apparent from the film’s first scene, when he pulls into a gas station ...

Commentator Stephen A. Smith slammed Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) this week for urging service members to disobey illegal orders from the Trump administration. Smith, while criticizing President Trump’s ...

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 Night Agent will be back for another season, and this was known before Season 2 even came out. The action-packed series saw its 10-episode second season arrive Jan. 23 on Netflix after getting ...

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 ...