Secret Santa gift exchanges can be chaotic in the best way. One minute you’re drawing a name from a hat, the next you’re scrambling to figure out what they’d actually like. The trick is finding ...

Editor's Note: This conversation has been edited and condensed for publication. I've been following your work for a few years, but for it to be for this film, from your home country of Brazil, and the ...

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 ...

“This is one of the year’s best films, and one of the most distinctive,” said Matt Zoller Seitz in RogerEbert.com. An award winner at Cannes, the sixth feature from Brazilian writer-director Kleber ...

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’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 ...

Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...

The protagonist of “The Secret Agent” isn’t a secret agent; he only lives like one. The reason for his clandestine maneuvering is apparent from the film’s first scene, when he pulls into a gas station ...

American audiences can get a taste of Brazilian history this holiday weekend with the upcoming U.S. release of The Secret Agent, a new historical political thriller that will be Brazil entry into the ...

Cinematographer Evgenia Alexandrova tells IndieWire about bringing documentary principles and handheld intuition to Kleber Mendonça Filho's '70s thriller. Evgenia Alexandrova, the Russian-born, ...

The third season of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” started streaming Thursday on Hulu, which means a new batch of Utah locations serve as the backdrop for the popular reality TV series. In ...

Director Norbert Lechner discusses the inspirations for the movie, which next screens at Tallinn, the role of 'Back to the Future,' and how the ghosts of the Nazi past reared their heads at a recent ...