The competition between Netflix and Paramount Skydance to acquire the studio is haunted by the ghosts of mergers past.

Kleber Mendonça Filho breaks down his new film 'The Secret Agent,' Brazil's official selection for the 2026 Oscars.

After commanding attention in "Narcos" and "Civil War," the Brazilian actor levels up with his finely complex leading turn in ...

The Performance Award recipient realized that, in returning to work in his native Brazil in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Cannes winner, "the more connected to my roots I am... the better artist I become." ...

F1: The Movie,” “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” and “The Life of Chuck” arrive, and “Fallout” and “Percy Jackson” return.

Secret Agent April Dancer — one of my all-time favorite character names — was played by Stephanie Powers and described as ...

“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 ...

The "Bacurau" director returns with a vividly textured epic about a man trying to get out of 1970s Brazil or die trying.

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

The past is never the past is never the past — especially if you lived in Brazil in 1977, “a period of great mischief.” That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça ...

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 ...