Kleber Mendonça Filho’s study of a man attempting to escape corrupt politics is a tremendous, novelistic study of corruption in high and low places ...

Having seen my share of movie theaters turned into other venues, I loved the last image of "The Secret Agent," one of ten films nominated in this year’s Acade ...

Set in director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian hometown of Recife, ...

Opinion writer Clara Resende reviews The Secret Agent. As a Brazilian-American, Resende thoroughly enjoyed the film as it served as a little slice of Brazil on the big screen.

The story follows a former professor caught in the middle of political turmoil and trying to flee a Brazilian dictatorship in the 1970s.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...