"Black Bag" is the second Soderbergh release this year. Director Steven Soderbergh announced his retirement back in 2011. Happily, his career death was greatly exaggerated. He's been working ...
Steven Soderbergh’s intimate, highly entertaining spy thriller Black Bag has already proven itself to be one of the year’s best films, as it offers both an intriguing espionage-based mystery ...
A whisper here, a wink there; it all goes inside the bottomless black bag, meant to snare and snuff out interpersonal mysteries before they become marital weaknesses. What’s more, in a time when ...
In Black Bag, espionage isn't just a job—it's a way of life. Steven Soderbergh's latest thriller blurs the lines between professional duty and personal entanglement, delivering a sleek ...
The title, Black Bag, is basically shorthand for classified intel — something Kathryn and George say when they're going somewhere or doing something that they can't disclose. The plot is set in ...
The set up for Black Bag is beautifully simple. Married couple George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett) are devoted to two things: their marriage and their ...
The result is “Black Bag,” a sleek, sexy and frequently surprising thriller that opens in theaters on Friday. It may be the breeziest movie Soderbergh has made since he stuffed George Clooney ...
Which is why the director and screenwriter of Black Bag have devised an easy one-stop-shop solution for the couple at the center of their espionage thriller. George (Michael Fassbender ...
"Black Bag" is the first great movie of 2025. And while it's not on one of the best streaming services yet, I think you need to go see it now that it's in theaters. I saw Steven Soderbergh's ...
Though the material he chose to reference for the film is rather dour and dark, Soderbergh nonetheless wanted “Black Bag” to be more of a blockbuster than a serious affair. “There’s a ...
At a blissful 93 minutes long, Black Bag keeps audiences happily guessing before dropping its final reveals. Though it has the same intimacy of many a Soderbergh effort of late—he tends to work ...