SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...

The spirit of Jaws looms large over Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Not only is the Steven Spielberg classic returning to theaters in the Brazil of 1977 we see in the film, but there are ...

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, ...