The Secret Agent ending explained: who killed Armando, why the hit failed, and how Fernando’s lost memory reframes the story ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Armando Solimões, the mournful-eyed central character played by Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent, isn’t a government operative, despite the title of the film. He also isn’t undercover, exactly, though ...

An opening title says that the film takes place in Brazil in 1977, during “a time of great mischief,” which turns out to be a ...