Wagner Moura is also nominated for best actor; if the movie wins best international film, it will mark the first time in ...

Brazilians are celebrating the nomination of “The Secret Agent” for four Oscar categories, highlighting the rise of Brazilian ...

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 ...

NEON has shared the first teaser trailer for The Secret Agent, the upcoming political thriller movie that hails from Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. Following its world premiere at the 2025 ...

If you’ve seen Wagner Moura show up in the likes of ‘Narcos,’ last year’s terrifying look at an riven America, ‘Civil War’ or any number of projects where he steals scenes in supporting roles, ‘The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Armando Solimões, the mournful-eyed central character played by Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, isn’t a government operative, despite the title of the film. He also isn’t undercover, exactly, though ...

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Well hello again, Justin, the ...