In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, ...

Secret Santa gift exchanges can be chaotic in the best way. One minute you’re drawing a name from a hat, the next you’re scrambling to figure out what they’d actually like. The trick is finding ...

The San Diego Film Critics Society Awards have officially revealed their 2025 winners. Sinners was the top performer across ...

The San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) has officially released its nominations for the 2025 film year. SDFCS was initially founded to represent critics across San Diego and Southern California.

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 ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Drenched in sex and death, “The Secret Agent” peers into the past in order to make sense of the present. The ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The stakes are high for the characters that Brazilian actor Wagner Moura takes on. Caught in the grip of ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...

The protagonist of “The Secret Agent” isn’t a secret agent; he only lives like one. The reason for his clandestine maneuvering is apparent from the film’s first scene, when he pulls into a gas station ...