The Secret Agent (2025)
O Agente Secreto
Thriller, Drama, Crime • 2h 41m
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Wagner Moura, Alice Carvalho, Gabriel Leone, Isabél Zuaa, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Udo Kier, Robson Andrade, Rubens Santos, Licínio Januário, Joálisson Cunha, Marcelo Valle, Fabiana Pirro, Hermila Guedes, Márcio De Paula, Gregorio Graziosi, Buda Lira, Suzy Lopes, Erivaldo Oliveira, Fafá Dantas, Geane Albuquerque, Isadora Ruppert, Wilson Rabelo, Aline Marta Maia, João Vitor Silva, Luciano Chirolli, Thomás Aquino, Roney Villela, Kaiony Venâncio, Carlos Francisco, Ítalo Martins, Igor de Araújo, Robério Diógenes, Enzo Nunes, Tânia Maria, Laura Lufési, Albert Tenorio, Alexis Geller, Ane Oliva, Anjoum Noorani, Ariel Sobral, Beto Quirino, Cely Farias, Edilson Silva, Eron Villar, Fábio Calamy, Fabíola Líper, Flávio Melo, Gal Moreira Borges, Ítalo Barbosa, Isabelle Albuquerque, Jimmy Astley, Jorge Bispo, Josinaldo Augusto Lins, Lady Patricia, Leoncio Rodrigues de Freitas Jr., Lula Terra, Marília Linhares, Mariza Moreira, Mauriceia Conceição, Nivaldo Nascimento, Paulina Kelly, Priscila Ferraz, Rafael Lins, Rafaela Pavin, Renata Caldas, Rogério Barbosa, Silvestre Luís, Stella Mulatinho, Toinho Mendes, Martin, Tomás, Nuno, Otto, Vicente, Kcal Gomes Ferraz
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 16 days ago
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is slightly better than French 4K Blu-ray see caps
UHD tiers
Overview
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Director: Steve James
Director: Joel Coen
Director's Cut: Disappointing UK StudioCanal/US Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: LaserDisc or 2001 UK Universal DVD
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21782879#post21782879 - comparison. StudioCanal is a massive improvement to the Criterion but still flawed in some areas (chroma noise)
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray poor compression, otherwise Second Sight has best Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
> BFI 4K Blu-ray. caps Criterion presents the master as originally graded in SDR whereas FiM added HDR / Dolby Vision for the BFI.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray's audio mix has more detail than BFI’s and same applies to the subtitles, covering both English and France spoken word
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Director: Terrence Malick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Lovely underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion but encode is sadly low-pass filtered by Pixelogic, and even then, the encode is still less than ideal. Still easily obliterates any prior disc release, but certainly wouldn't hurt to have a UK or German label take a crack at this same master.
Director: Anthony Mann
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, Universal 2008 DVD
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2008 Universal DVD mono
The mono on the Criterion is severely filtered resulting in it sounding incredibly muffled. It is nearly as filtered as the 2003 original Universal DVD which had extreme filtering and sounds horribly thin. The 2008 DVD remaster and original Laserdisc analog mastering are mostly left alone. The original LD master is from a worn element but otherwise sounds very natural. The 2008 DVD is the highest quality version we have without the heavy filtering and the defects of the LD master. It isn't perfect but easily the best of the main four sources by a dramatic margin.
The existing 4K SDR restoration looks excellent, but the Criterion extras are limited and disappointing. The classic Stewart interview commentary from the LD is ported over but given a new mastering. Compared to past releases it has been very slightly noise reduced.
More Thriller on Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
> Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
Director: Iain Softley
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn included an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
Shout! Factory has the exclusive The Beauty of the Baud and the You Can't Stop Us All featurettes.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Roman Polanski
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray see caps. Much better contrast and grain exposure but the grade is a bit questionable as it skews heavily towards magenta in some caps and the encode looks low-pass filtered.
Atmos Remix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1: Imprint Australia Blu-ray or StudioCanal Germany/France Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray encoded the "Original 5.1" as lossy Dolby Digital, which is very different from the AC3 on the original DVD. This new "Original 5.1" may in fact be a downmix of the Atmos track. FWIW, the original DVD AC3 still sounds very good.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
BD LPCM 5.1
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
Director: Lloyd Bacon
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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