“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 ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Don’t run from your past. Revolutionize it! Taking place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, The Secret Agent follows Armando Solimoes (Wagner Moura), a technology ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...