Film

The new Brazilian film "The Secret Agent" is set during that country's dictatorship, which ran from 1964 to 1985. It stars Wagner Moura as an honorable scientist who becomes a target of powerful forces. The movie, which was directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho, won two big prizes at Cannes and is Brazil's submission for this year's Academy Awards. Our critic-at-large, John Powers, says it's even better than "I'm Still Here," the Brazilian movie that won an Oscar earlier this year.

Paul Tazewell, an Academy Award-winning costume designer whose career includes designing for "Hamilton," "West Side Story," "The Color Purple" and now "Wicked: For Good."

Our film critic, Justin Chang, says the best documentary he's seen this year is a 5 1/2-hour film called "My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air In Moscow." Filmed over several months in late 2021 and early 2022, it follows several independent journalists in Moscow as they deal with the fallout of Vladimir Putin's crackdown on reporters and Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine. "My Undesirable Friends" received a Gotham Award nomination for best documentary and is playing at select venues around the country.

Shannon brings James Garfield's brief presidency to the screen in a new Netflix series. And in the film Nuremberg, Shannon plays a prosecutor trying Nazi leaders for war crimes.

In his new film, Fraser plays an actor in Tokyo who takes a job with a rental family service. It's based on a real phenomenon in Japan: companies where you can hire someone to fill a gap in your life.

In the new drama "Hamnet," which opens in limited release next week, Paul Mescal plays William Shakespeare as a young playwright, husband and father in the years leading up to his writing of "Hamlet." The film, which also stars Jessie Buckley as Agnes, Shakespeare's wife, was adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel. It's the latest movie from Chloe Zhao, the Oscar-winning director of "Nomadland."

Leigh shares stories about Psycho, including the infamous shower scene. Also, screenwriter Evan Hunter talks about working with the Hitchcock on his next film, The Birds. Originally broadcast in 1999.

Four years after their Oscar-nominated comedy "The Worst Person In The World," the Danish-born Norwegian director Joachim Trier and actor Renate Reinsve are together on a new drama, "Sentimental Value." The movie, which also features Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning, won the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival and will represent Norway in this year's Oscar race for Best International Feature. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.

Filmmaker Richard Linklater doesn't speak French, but that didn't stop him from directing a movie that's almost entirely in French. Nouvelle Vague focuses on the beginning of the New Wave of cinema, specifically Jean-Luc Godard and his landmark 1960 movie Breathless.

In this wickedly funny dark comedy, Emma Stone stars as a high-powered CEO who gets kidnapped by a low-ranking employee, played by Jesse Plemons, who believes she's an alien from outer space.