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- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A compelling political thriller that finds horror in state bureaucracies that erase people as a routine part of daily life.
- [New] | Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: If The Secret Agent isn’t as strong as One Battle After Another as a story about surviving a fascist regime, it’s still a bold, likable, and carefully considered piece of work from one of Brazil’s best filmmakers, with a moving and low-key portrait of an everyday hero at its center.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I love a title with the power to feed into how you interpret the story on-screen. It’s a brilliant bit of implicit manipulation that ensures engagement in such a way that we don’t get angry once the strings are revealed. We become impressed.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: I spent almost 2 hours and 40 minutes of this too-long film wondering when the action would start, what the purpose of Filho’s film might be, and what that leg from the shark really represented.
- Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: É uma história de gente comum num período onde o normal não tinha lugar. É sobre um homem, que é também um pai, mas nada mais pode ser dito para não estragar o filme.
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A fascinating and narratively rich film that tells us a lot about the nature of authoritarian regimes, violence, oppression, memory, and families.
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