No matter that it’s set in ’70s Brazil, The Secret Agent is a spy thriller for this highly charged moment in history—a saga of persecution, paranoia, and terror whose portrait of life under autocracy boasts more than a few distressing echoes with our present American (and global) reality.

The story of a man on the run from corrupt and murderous forces determined to punish him for his insolence, it’s a firecracker genre film that hums with suspense, even as it colors its action with humor, horror, and surrealistic fantasy, all of it designed to capture the unreal madness of a society figuratively (and sometimes literally) strangled by dictatorship.

For acclaimed director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighboring Sounds, Aquarius), The Secret Agent is a triumphant follow-up to his stellar 2019 g

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