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Kleber Mendonça Filho's gripping thriller won top prizes at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and the 2026 Golden Globes: “Best Director”, “Best Intern...

Platino Awards Xcaret Reveal 2026 Nominations: ‘BelĂ©n,’ ‘Los Domingos’ Lead Films With 11 Noms

The 13th annual ceremony honoring Ibero-American film and TV will take place inside the Gran Tlachco Theater at Xcaret Park in Riviera Maya, Mexico on May 9.

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The Secret Agent: Exploring a Vibrant, Yet Violent Brazil

Cinematographer Evgenia Alexandrova, AFC creates a warm and vivid palette for director Kleber Mendonça Filho's film, which journeys into the dark heart of 1970s Recife during the week of Carnival.

The American Society of Cinematographers

Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ Wins Best International Feature And Strikes a Blow Against Politicians That Aren’t “Responsible For All Children”
#News #Awardsnews #ItWasJustAnAccident #Oscars #Oscars2026 #SentimentalValue #Sirat #TheSecretAgent #TheVoiceOfHindRajab

https://deadline.com/2026/03/joachim-trier-sentimental-value-best-international-feature-oscar-1236754753/

Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ Wins Best International Feature And Strikes a Blow Against Politicians That Aren’t “Responsible For All Children”

Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ wins Best International Feature and strikes a blow against politicians that aren’t “responsible for all children”

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Of the 5 of this year's Best Picture nominees I've seen, Sinners is my favorite, with Hamnet close behind.

The other 3, in order of preference, are:
The Secret Agent, One Battle After Another, Bugonia.

The last 2 absolutely do not deserve to be considered Best Picture despite having many excellent aspects.

Overall, the last two are too inconsistent and problematic in too many ways, for me.

#movie #movies #film #cinema #Sinners #Hamnet #TheSecretAgent #OneBattleAfterAnother #Bugonia #Oscars

Bin bei weitem nicht so angry wie bei #Oppenheimer und auch etwas weniger als bei #Anora, aber statt #obaa hĂ€tt #sinners oder #thesecretagent gewinnen dĂŒrfen. Beide hatten fĂŒr mich neben der handwerklichen Exzellenz die Extra-Meile der innovativen ErzĂ€hlweise zu bieten. #oscars2026 #academyawards

The Secret Agent is good but too slow and the first hour and a half is just too much and needs editing.

It does a great job of immersing us into its world; it's almost cinema vérité.

Gritty, sweaty, and earthy, it's a sensory movie that makes the environment almost palpable.

Wagner Moura is excellent and is the thread that weaves the past, present, and future of the story into a tapestry of Brazil's recent history, nightmares and all.

#TheSecretAgent #movie #movies #film #cinema #drama

This is how Brazil followed the #Oscars, cheering for #TheSecretAgent
A View From the Couch: Corruption, Sex, and a Rotting Corpse

Rating 8.5/10

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