‘The Secret Agent’ movie review: Wagner Moura smoulders in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful anatomy of political fear

‘The Secret Agent’ movie review: Wagner Moura smoulders in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful anatomy of political fear

To anatomise fear as fiction is to recognise its very real mechanics in the places we actually live, and that uncomfortable truth is what elevates ‘The Secret Agent’ above and beyond the year’s more self-satisfied seriousness