Kleber Mendonça Filho’s films (Aquarius, Bacurau, Pictures of Ghosts) have always resisted easy classification, but The Secret Agent may be his most expansive work yet—a film that moves deftly between political thriller, character study and city symphony without ever announcing its shifts. Set in…
Read MoreThere will be little middle ground on James Cameron’s thrilling Avatar: Fire and Ash; you’ll either find it richly transporting or, well, expected. Perhaps both. Sure, it’s what you think it is—a battle royale between tall blue beings and colonizing invaders loaded with dazzling…
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