The Secret Agent

Name: The Secret Agent
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, Crime
Released: November 26, 2025
Duration: 158 min
Rating: 91

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Neon | Release Date: November 26, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.

Genre(s): Drama, History, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 158 min

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100

David Fear

Nov 26, 2025

What initially seems like a series of cryptic aside soon turns into a bigger-picture revelation about what Filho has been chasing all along: the passage of time, and how it never really heals all wounds. That’s not really a secret. But it is a point that bears repeating, especially when its echoed in a movie as graceful and gratifying as this one. Read full review

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Odie Henderson

Dec 10, 2025

All in all, “The Secret Agent” feels like a memory play filtered not only through its director’s reminiscences but through the cinema’s past as well. Read full review

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The Independent Patrick Smith

Feb 19, 2026

At 160 minutes, the film teeters on self-indulgence, but it moves freely from scene to scene, propelled by Mendonça’s energetic camerawork and a performance that elevates Moura to the top table. Read full review

The Travers Take Peter Travers

Nov 29, 2025

Take a look at leading man Wagner Moura. That’s a movie star, right there. An Oscar nomination for this political thriller that truly thrills is his next step. Just watch, it’ll happen. Read full review

Tara Brady

Feb 19, 2026

In Mendonça Filho’s slippery moral universe, revelation offers neither catharsis nor closure, only the squeamish knowledge that some nightmares end, and others are obscured by history. Read full review

Alan Ng

Oct 21, 2025

Filho masterfully turns a tale of survival into a deeply human story about love, loyalty, and the cost of integrity under tyranny. Read full review

Mark Hanson

Sep 5, 2025

More broadly appealing than Kleber Mendonça Filho’s past films, The Secret Agent is still unmistakeably the work of an artist who’s deeply fascinated with the ways in which cinema, politics, and personal history co-mingle. Read full review

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