entle and lyrical, this spy movie is an unlikely crowd-pleaser.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Warmhearted and poignant, The Mole Agent doesn’t erupt with the explosive scandal sought by the client so much as reveal a festering familial failure to care for our loved ones. Call your mom, dad, grandma, or grandpa. Better yet, visit.

| Jul 29, 2024

The filmmaker seeks to share with viewers a seldom-seen world filled with vibrant people desperately seeking autonomy, agency and independence.

| Jul 28, 2023

At times a little uneven and lacks cohesion... but it's still a well-structured and powerful documentary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 11, 2022

Funny, heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking, we follow our spy as he struggles with the tech he needs to use for his mission and as he finds immerses himself in the lives of the various characters in the nursing home in this touching, insightful film.

| Dec 1, 2021

Alberdi's eye is perceptive and poignant.

| Dec 1, 2021

Chilean director Maite Alberdi's elderly spy documentary is so compelling, audiences will wonder if it's really a documentary or a scripted film pretending to be a documentary.

| Dec 1, 2021

Director Maite Alberdi's creative, captivating new film The Mole Agent feels like a rather slow narrative feature, in which not enough happens, until you remember it's a documentary.

| Dec 1, 2021

Chilean director Maite Alberdi's genre-bending The Mole Agent is a portrait of advanced age unlike any I've seen. The filmmaker deftly mixes documentary with spy thriller.

| Dec 1, 2021

There's no question that it tells a memorable story with a meaningful message...

| Dec 1, 2021

A very particular and ingenious mix of reality and invention. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 22, 2021

Initially staged as a grand mystery, 'The Mole Agent' eventually is a mere reminder to visit any friends or relatives you might know who are in care facilities.

| Sep 14, 2021

Terrific, thought-provoking entertainment.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 5, 2021

The premise of the movie is so bizarre we can hardly believe it's not staged, even though most of the characters could never be imagined as actors.

| Aug 1, 2021

Alberdi sees the change he brings to people who haven't been paid this much attention in years, and also the change the spy gig brings in Sergio - and sharing her affectionate gaze is easy in this thoughtful film.

| Jul 9, 2021

The Mole Agent, an intriguing fly-on-the-wall documentary from Chile, takes an unusual approach to the subject of the treatment of the elderly.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 18, 2021

The Mole Agent is simultaneously both a very soft and very hard film to watch retrospectively in the context of the coronavirus, but it is always humane.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2021

Unforced and without any formal narration, director Maite Alberdi fashions a gentle, moving, insightful portrait of people who, for some, appear to have lived too long.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2021

The Mole Agent is borderline insulting in its approach, and not nearly as clever as it thinks it is.

| Jun 5, 2021

Maite Alberdi shows us a reality from a point of view that could not be more human. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 18, 2021