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40 years later, Brazil is as prescient as ever

Kevin Nguyen

created: Aug. 7, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: Aug. 7, 2025, 2:26 p.m.

Rewatching Brazil in 2025 — nearly four decades after its release — it’s hard to understate how well this movie holds up. (And honestly, the non-4K version of Brazil that you can perennially stream on The Criterion Channel still looks great too.) I got the right man,” says one bureaucrat. “The wrong one was delivered to me as the right man; I accepted him on good faith as the right man. Watching Brazil 40 years later, it’s even clearer what we were being warned about.

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