Before James Bond returns to the big screen to usher in a new generation, another spy film will debut on Hulu next year.

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 ...

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 ...

A casual disregard for human life contrasts with a colorful, hard-partyin’ atmosphere of 1977 Carnaval in Brazil in “The Secret Agent,” director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s momentous epic, a mercurial ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” opens with a curious warning. “Our story is set in the Brazil of 1977,” white text reads as a yellow Volkswagen Beetle pulls into a gas ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...