Catching up on all of the Best Picture movies nominated for the 2026 Oscars just got a little easier, because the Brazilian political thriller, The Secret Agent, is now available to buy and rent ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2023, Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho made a vastly underrated documentary, Pictures of Ghosts. Within the film, which explores (among many themes) the cinemas of Recife, the filmmaker ...

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 ...

Chauí describes the presence on campus of mysterious military figures with the power to hire and fire and “disappear” staff ...