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Some find it overlong and lacking the intrigue expected from a political thriller. [1]
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The key to making a successful political thriller is to maintain a taught sense of mesmerizing, edge-of-the-seat intrigue. Unfortunately, that’s precisely the element that’s missing in this overlong, annoyingly convoluted tale set in 1977 Brazil during the waning days of its military dictatorship. The story follows the life of Armando (Wagner Moura), a former university researcher targeted for manipulation and …
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It helps to have at least a passing understanding of Brazil’s political landscape in the 1970s when approaching Kleber Mendonça Filho’s THE SECRET AGENT. Ruled by a military dictatorship until the mid-1980s, the country still carries the traumatic residue of injustice and repression. Once regarded as a relative moderate who would guide Brazil back toward democracy, General Ernesto Geisel has since been reassessed in …
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Don't watch this as a "thriller", as it isn't thrilling. See it instead as an artistic take on how political corruption destroys everything in its path and does so with a nearly unstoppable force. Excellent and believable performances, great effort to re-create a 70s atmosphere, although the script could have taken a bit more polish.
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First things first: if you’re expecting something from “U.N.C.L.E.” via Ian Fleming then you are probably going to be disappointed. This isn’t that kind of drama. Instead, it follows three characters portrayed by Wagner Moura who have to navigate a series of political intrigues that begin in 1970s Brazil. Academic “Marcelo” (aka “Armando”) has arrived in his home city of Recife under some sort of cloak of secrecy; …
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This film looks great. Brazil is such a cool place. I want to go live in this time...but as a rich white guy visiting who doesn't have to deal with the apparent horrors. Perhaps we could do a The Secret Agent 2 starring me. I'd probably have to duck while using the phone booth. I crouch well. Fun story. Interesting characters. Great! I bet this will get a Hollywood redux in a few years.
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Critics, per Wikipedia
On its opening weekend in Brazil, The Secret Agent had 273,000 admissions, grossing R$6.6 million at the box office, topping Predator: Badlands debut weekend (R$5.7 million) and Black Phone 2 fourth weekend (R$1.8 million). By the end of its first full week, alongside September and October previews, the film had surpassed 500,000 admissions and R$10 million at the box office. By 16 March 2026, The Secret Agent had 2.5 million admissions in Brazil, grossing R$52 million ($9.9 million) and surpassing Bacurau as Mendonça's highest-grossing film. In its limited release weekend in the United States, The Secret Agent grossed $71k on the 5-day opening Thanksgiving holiday, with an average $23k per…
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60 of 305 · most liked firstBEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: The Secret Agent
neutral · AI labelView post →‘THE SECRET AGENT’ has won Best International Film at the Critics Choice Awards.
neutral · AI labelView post →Exclusive poster for Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent starring Wagner Moura 🇧🇷 The film has been shortlisted for Best International Feature Film and Best Casting for the 98th Academy Awards. In theaters everywhere via NEON
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret Agent wins Best International Film at the #SpiritAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →Plz watch “The Secret Agent” - it’s amazing film that can teach you so much about how to fight back against fascism. Memory is resistance paydayreport.com/oscar-nomina...
positive · AI labelView post →‘THE SECRET AGENT’ has won Best Non-English Language Film at the Golden Globes See the full winners list: bit.ly/GlobeWins26
neutral · AI labelView post →Best Film Not in the English Language, Winner: THE SECRET AGENT #LAFCA
neutral · AI labelView post →This is what I wrote about One Battle After Another for @flaminghydra.com. It's not the best movie I saw this year or the one whose despair/politics/craft ratio best aligned with mine; that's The Secret Agent, which is on another level. But I still think it was great: flaminghydra.com/issue-416/
positive · AI labelView post →"Once in a while, you see a movie that doesn’t feel made, but extracted from a dreaming mind. It won’t go to you and hand over its meanings. You have to go to it." I reviewed The Secret Agent, my favorite film of 2025. Haunting, beautiful, profound. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...
positive · AI labelView post →Awarding the coveted David Roth "What A Picture" status to The Secret Agent (2025). Another really humane, inventive, and nicely nasty movie about trying to remain human in very bad times that is also a blast to watch pretty much from start to finish.
positive · AI labelView post →Wagner Moura has won Best Actor in a Drama - Film for ‘THE SECRET AGENT’ at the Golden Globes See the full winners list: bit.ly/GlobeWins26
neutral · AI labelView post →“The Secret Agent” (2025), cinematographer Evgenia Alexandrova, AFC shot the movie on the ARRI Alexa 35 digital camera. The “texture and warmth” you may think you’re getting from celluloid film is mostly coming from lensing, lighting, and production design. theasc.com/articles/the...
neutral · AI labelView post →okay! i wrote about The Secret Agent and how it's portrayal of death on screen feels more real than any other film i've seen www.jesseraub.online/the-absence-...
positive · AI labelView post →‘THE SECRET AGENT’ wins Best International Film at the ‘CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS’. #TheSecretAgent #CriticsChoiceAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m not Brazilian and I’m not at #Cannes2025, but I believe The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, and the entire cast of the film deserve all the awards and recognition 👏👏👏
positive · AI labelView post →2026 Oscars — Best International Film: • The Secret Agent • Sentimental Value • Sirāt • It Was Just An Accident • The Voice of Hind Rajab See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26
neutral · AI labelView post →Golden Globes Nominations — Best Actor in a Drama Film: • Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams • Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine • Michael B Jordan, Sinners • Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent • Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen • Oscar Issac, Frankenstein See the full nominees list: bit.ly/GGNoms25
neutral · AI labelView post →Oscar-nominated Brazilian film “The Secret Agent” is about an activist on the run from dictatorship in 1977 Brasil. It’s shattered box office records for s Brazilian film & nominated for 4 Oscars. Its stars have regularly denounced both Trumpism & Bolsonarismo paydayreport.com/oscar-nomina...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret Agent getting a Best Picture nomination likely means it's going to be a lot easier to see soon. And its Best Casting nomination? Perfection. I've rarely seen a movie whose bench is so deep.
positive · AI labelView post →Sirat is an experience of the senses such that I wish I had seen it on the big screen. Beautiful and achingly tragic. My three-way tie for best movie of 2025, having finally seen all contenders is: Sirat, The Secret Agent, and It Was Just An Accident. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sira...
positive · AI labelView post →I haven't seen a movie in the last year that requires the same patience — I mean this in a very, very good way — as THE SECRET AGENT re: letting the plot develop It's exquisite & so beautifully tense — knowing so little and gradually knowing more, and more, and more
positive · AI labelView post →It’s the beginning of a beautiful friendship when Lupita Nyong’o presents the award for Best Actor to Wagner Moura for his performance in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” at the 91st New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am not Brazilian and I am not attending #Cannes, but I firmly believe that The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, and the entire cast of the film deserve all the awards and recognition for their outstanding work
positive · AI labelView post →“I am very proud of what is happening in Brazil,” @kmendoncafilho.bsky.social tells me as his incredible new film The Secret Agent hits the big screen www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
neutral · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Actor in a Drama film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Joel Edgerton - Train Dreams Oscar Isaac - Frankenstein Dwayne Johnson - The Smashing Machine Michael B. Jordan - Sinners Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent Jeremy Allen White - Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
neutral · AI labelView post →March on The Big Pic: 3/2 6th Annual Big Picks 3/6 THE BRIDE! + THE SECRET AGENT 3/9 Anything But Oscars Live Mailbag + HOPPERS 3/12 Final Oscar Predix 3/15 98th Academy Awards 3/17 Post-Oscars Hangover 3/20 PROJECT HAIL MARY 3/23 A Special Conversation 3/25 1988 Movie Draft 3/30 Best of '26 So Far
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret Agent is a very very good movie, essential for our moment. And Wagner Moura is essential to making it work.
positive · AI labelView post →Best Film Not in the English Language: THE SECRET AGENT (58 points) Runners-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (57 points) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (38 points)
neutral · AI labelView post →One thing I really loved about The Secret Agent is that Wagner Moura is clearly incredibly hot and the movie simply acknowledges it. Felt far more accurate to real life than what Hollywood does-Pretend the actor isnt gorgeous or beat us over the head with it ala Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies.
positive · AI labelView post →As the music rose to signal him to wrap up and exit the stage, Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, who had just won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film for the Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent, kept on talking. Kleber called for solidarity between Americans & Brazilians
neutral · AI labelView post →Golden Globes Nominations — Best International Film • It Was Just An Accident • No Other Choice • The Secret Agent • Sentimental Value • Sirāt • The Voice of Hind Rajab See the full nominees list: bit.ly/GGNoms25
neutral · AI labelView post →At the screening I went to, the writer-director of The Secret Agent said—paraphrasing here, I took notes but didn't know I'd need 'em today—that he's sick of movies with good-looking actors, and tried to populate this movie with actors who look great. And he did. Everyone in it is so fun to watch.
positive · AI labelView post →It Was Just An Accident is a brilliant movie from beginning to end. Just devastating, but also kind of hopeful. There is a lot of kindness in it. A good pairing with The Secret Agent, another unusual film. Both center those oppressed by systems and individuals, in life-affirming, honorable ways.
positive · AI labelView post →Instead of watching the Oscars, I watched The Secret Agent, which was very, very good with an amazing lead performance from Wagner Moura. It’s not the movie you think it is, but it’s another film that’s a warning about how evil capitalists fuck everything up for decent people.
positive · AI labelView post →Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret Agent #CriticsChoiceAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →Osca-nominated “The Secret Agent” is the most left wing film at the Oscar, but will it win? My look at the Brazilian film that set record for Brazilian box office hit in the US
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched The Secret Agent, and I loved it. It's a period piece that creates a fully realized vibe, settling into it through impressionistic vignettes of a man persecuted under the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 1970s. It's also a movie about the importance of archivists.
positive · AI labelView post →#LAFCA I’m ecstatic that we have awarded THE SECRET AGENT the award for Best Film Not in the English Language. And it’s also the runner-up for Best Picture of the year. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 @lafilmcritics.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →What a relief. Brazil ultimately selected THE SECRET AGENT as the country’s Oscar entry. It’s a masterful film. Happy for Kleber Mendonça Filho, who is one of the most brilliant filmmakers working today.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎥: First look at the Marta biopic, set for release in 2027! The film will follow the remarkable career of Brazilian football icon Marta, with Alice Carvalho—star of The Secret Agent—portraying the legendary forward 🐐🇧🇷 📸: Laura Campanella, O GLOBO
neutral · AI labelView post →THE SECRET AGENT wins Best International Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. “Cinema is a manifestation of memory itself. and remembering is also a political act.”🇧🇷🏆
neutral · AI labelView post →THE SECRET AGENT is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...
positive · AI labelView post →Nominees for Best Drama Film at this year's #GoldenGlobes: Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just An Accident The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners
neutral · AI labelView post →More on the Secret Agent. The film came to life thanks to socialist policies in Brazil that funneled money into the arts. Thanks Lula!!
neutral · AI labelView post →at last, just saw The Secret Agent - a truly great movie
positive · AI labelView post →For my @ebertvoices.bsky.social debut, I wrote about THE SECRET AGENT, the humanities, and memory as both acts of resistance and love. This movie is very dear to me, and I'm glad to be an enthusiastic champion of it as part of Women's Writers Week! ➡️ www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wagner Moura wins Best Actor at the 78th Cannes Film Festival for ‘THE SECRET AGENT.’ His portrayal of Marcel in the 1977 Brazil-set thriller earned high praise for its depth and subtlety. #TheSecretAgent #Cannes
neutral · AI labelView post →My #Cannes2025 competition favorite so far is Kleber Mendonça Filho’s knockout ‘70s political thriller THE SECRET AGENT, led by a never-better Wagner Moura. Between this & the gorgeous BLUE TRAIL in Berlin, could Brazil win Oscars 2 years running? www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →I am no longer calmly asking what is going on with screenings of The Secret Agent. Why is this film not available for me to watch in theaters?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Secret Agent is a certified REAL MOVIE not the guy approved
positive · AI labelView post →Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho made a masterwork: THE SECRET AGENT, a crime drama steeped in history & palpable adoration for cinema. A movie about movies & movie theaters, about fiction & truth, & how they overlap. Here’s my @theplaylist.bsky.social review: theplaylist.net/the-secret-a...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched a whole lot of horror movies for someone who doesn't like horror movies. The Secret Agent was amazing. Not exactly what I expected heading into it, but man, Kleber Mendonça Filho loves human beings. The Quiet Family was hilarious and what a cast! #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
positive · AI labelView post →I had a great time revisiting THE SECRET AGENT and discussing it with Amanda on the pod. What a special movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Thinking about Dave Portnoy slumped on a couch watching a movie where a father is explaining his absence to his child and says he will always love him even if mom is gone and then Dave gets on his phone and types “28 minutes into The Secret Agent and it sucks shit, does this movie get good soon?”
neutral · AI labelView post →🇧🇷THE SECRET AGENT has won the Critics Choice for Best Foreign Language Film award!! So happy for @kmendoncafilho.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn’t cry watching The Secret Agent but thinking back on the movie makes me a little misty eyed, that’s cinema baby
positive · AI labelView post →THE SECRET AGENT is my favorite movie of the year, I have not been able to get it out of my head for months, and I would appreciate it if you read my review! www.fresnobee.com/entertainmen...
positive · AI labelView post →just started THE SECRET AGENT (2025) and my first thought is that this movie is *beautiful*
positive · AI labelView post →First watch: The Secret Agent (2025). Another film set in director Kleber Mendonça Filho's hometown of Recife, this time against the backdrop of military dictatorship and political resistance. Harking back to the 70s political thriller, the film has great texture and an immersive sense of place. 1/3
positive · AI labelView post →I was so proud to host the Pittsburgh premiere of “The Secret Agent”. Brazilian anti fascist films have been finding success in the U.S. & we need then so bad right now. Memory is resistance paydayreport.com/oscar-nomina...
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