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The Secret Agent

2025 · directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho · 161 min
24,642 feet · Prominence
608th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw42

Lifetime worldwide gross $19m, re-releases included; about $19m in 2026 money.

Rank6,029 of 11,051In 202596 of 235

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise94

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics91 baseAwards71 signal → +3 lift

Oscars3 nominated Picture, Actor, International Feature Film
Golden Globes2 won Actor, Non-English Language Film1 nominated Best Picture
BAFTAs1 nominated Screenplay
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Criterion, MC91; 2025 Cannes winner, building.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7.2 from 51kWikipedia170k views a monthAge1 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 659 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 42 praise 94 legacy 58averages 65, placing it at24,642 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Wagner Moura▲ Isabél Zuaa▲ Alice Carvalho

In these careers — elevation for this film

Wagner Moura19,934 ftGabriel Leone18,044 ftIsabél Zuaa17,996 ftAlice Carvalho17,985 ftUdo Kier17,884 ft