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‘Black Bag’ movie review: Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender light up Steven Soderbergh’s sleek espionage thriller

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‘Black Bag’ movie review: Bookended by two dinners over a week, this talky, adrenaline-charged mole-hunt is simultaneously retro and prescient

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‘Black Bag’ movie review: Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender light up Steven Soderbergh’s sleek espionage thriller

‘Black Bag’ movie review: Bookended by two dinners over a week, this talky, adrenaline-charged mole-hunt is simultaneously retro and prescient

4 days ago·India

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Film Reflection | ‘Black Bag’

Movies take us where we ordinarily can’t go, allowing us to enter into lives and places and observe them up close. Sometimes, what we see about human nature is not flattering. They prompt us to wonder how those people can live with themselves. The characters in “Black Bag” are as amoral as any you will find. These officers in the British Intelligence Agency lie, cheat and sleep around, all while attempting a façade of respectability. The film in…

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Movie Meow: “Black Bag” calls back to classic spy movies

In the intelligence world, a spy is strictly defined as someone who is used to stealing secrets from an intelligence organization. To get into the field of espionage, you can either volunteer or be recruited. There are many motivational factors to becoming a secret spy, ranging from financial reward, patriotism, ideology, or even something as simple as love or as dangerous as blackmail. Now we are not talking Inspector Gadget here, but there are…

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Five Cent Cine: Black Bag - Buffalo Rising

Black Bag ★★1/2 (out of 4 stars) Colonel Mustard Did It With director Steven Soderbergh (“Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” 1985) at the helm, and Cate Blanchett (Kathryn St. Jean) and Michael Fassbender as power couple spies, one might anticipate a complex, sophisticated thriller of a film, packed with international intrigue and showcasing the sexual attraction of two of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Instead, it’s a rather traditional whodunnit, the 1943…

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India Daily Mail

Black Bag flick analysis: Taut, interesting spy thriller

Film: Black BagCast: Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgå& aring; rd, Cate Blanchett, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom BurkeDirector:Steven SoderberghRating: 3/5Runtime: 93 minutes Multiple Oscar victorSteven Soderbergh wears a number of hats proper right here as director-producer-editor-cinematographer and David Koepp, broadly identified creator of ‘& lsquo;Jurassic Park & rsquo; and & lsquo;Mission:Impossible & rsquo; has really created the film…

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Black Bag movie review: Taut, engaging spy thriller

Black Bag movie review: You can admire the shenanigans but they never get deep enough to get you totally involved. There’s tension and loads of intrigue

4 days ago·Mumbai, India

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