The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho conjures fateful interconnections among vivid characters living in the grip of military dictatorship.

Narcos star Wagner Moura talks about his role in director Kleber Mendonça Filho's '70s-set Brazilian drama and how life under the Bolsonaro regime shaped their collaboration.

During Saturday’s pre-release screening of “The Secret Agent” at the Wesleyan Film Series, I was utterly enraptured for just about every second of the film’s sizable 161-minute runtime, a big, stupid ...