The Tribeca Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in New York City this spring! Taking place June 3-14, the festival will showcase 118 feature films, including 103 world premieres, alongside 86 shorts. Opening the festival on Wednesday, June 3 is the […]

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To celebrate the success of the Oscar-nominated The Secret Agent, NEON has announced that it will be hosting free screenings in nationwide U.S. theaters for one day only on Sunday, March 8. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller is nominated for […]

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Late last week, the 2025 (technically the 2026) Awards Season started heating up in earnest but it’s typically the nominees for Golden Globes that signify the full season kick-off. While snubs and surprises are always part of the fun, the […]

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Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent, from Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau), takes place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. It was a time of violence and […]

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After taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm, where it won Best Director, Best Actor, and the FIPRESCI Prize, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is one of the most anticipated films of this awards season. It stars Wagner […]

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(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his The Secret Agent movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The […]

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NEON has done it again. After 10 days of highly buzzed new cinema and hot acquisitions, the 78th Cannes Film Festival concluded with the Palme d’Or being awarded to Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller, It Was Just An Accident. After acquiring […]

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The 2019 New York Film Festival began with a bang — the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s feverishly anticipated The Irishman. And The Irishman itself ended with a whimper, or something close to it: This long (three and a half […]

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