William Fichtner and Elizabeth McGovern star in the supernatural spy thriller created by John Lee Hancock, about an ancient organization monitoring otherworldly threats. By Angie Han Television Critic ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In explaining the workings of the shadowy Talamasca, Helen (Elizabeth McGovern) tells a young recruit that her secretive organization “tracks, observes and occasionally intervenes” in the shadow world ...
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, ...