Tag: The Secret Agent

• A Spy and a Secret Agent Lead My 2025 Ten Best List

  

  In 2023, I went against the grain and named a film from 1961, Dino Risi’s Una Vita Difficile, which had never before been released in America, as the best picture of the year. Well, my contrarian impulse has surfaced again. This year I’m placing a film from 2019, Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy, at the…

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  December 29, 2025

  Film Appreciation

  An Officer and a Spy, Apocalypse in the Tropics, Blue Moon, Deaf President Now!, Familiar Touch, It Was Just an Accident, My Undesirable Friends, Sinners, The Secret Agent, The Voice of Hind Rajab

• New York Film Festival Welcomes Cannes Award Winners ‘The Secret Agent’ and ‘It Was Just an Accident’

  

  The 63rd New York Film Festival opens at Lincoln Center on September 26, 2025. Thanks to early press screenings, I’ve already seen 12 out of the 74 features being screened through October 13—and I can make some strong recommendations. I had the pleasure of interviewing Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho for Boxoffice magazine in 2019 about his…

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  September 21, 2025

  Film Appreciation

  Below the Clouds, Blue Moon, It Was Just an Accident, New York Film Festival, The Secret Agent