"The Secret Agent"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For this week's second podcast review, Alyssa Christian, Dan Bayer, Giovanni Lago, and Brendan Hodges join me to discuss the latest feature film from renowned Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, "The Secret Agent" starring Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria, Robério Diógenes, Alice Carvalho, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândidom, Hermila Guedes, Isabél Zuaa, and Udo Kier. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it received widespread acclaim and became the festival's most awarded film, winning the Best Actor award for Moura, the Best Director award for Mendonça Filho, the Art House Cinema Award, and the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film. At the 2025 Critics' Choice Awards, it won Best Foreign Language Film; at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, it became the first Brazilian film nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, winning Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Wagner Moura) and Best Foreign Language Film. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor for Moura, Best Casting, and Best International Feature Film. With all the awards and success, what did we think of it? Please tune in as we discuss the direction, themes, lead performance by Wagner Moura, the rest of the ensemble, its awards season run, how passionate Brazilian fans are, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening. Enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of The Secret Agent.
0:06.7	This is the person.
0:09.1	I want a burraco in the book.
0:17.1	In your case, is what I'm more to resolve.
0:24.6	You're a matter. The case is what I want to resolve. There are a lot of doing looking, is that you're saying?
0:26.6	There?
0:27.6	I'm looking.
0:28.6	I think you'd be there.
0:31.6	You think you'd be there's here?
0:36.6	I don't want to be there. I'm going to be that's right that's right
0:38.3	I'm going to be my father.
0:40.3	He's going to be a man.
0:43.3	He's a little grail.
0:45.3	Now you have to start a fifth
0:50.3	a second day,
0:51.3	so dilla.
0:53.3	That he is Armando? No. All right, he's just a friend of Sedina.
0:56.0	He's Armando?
0:57.7	No.
0:59.5	The name of him is Marcelo.
1:00.7	Armando?
1:03.3	Armando.
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