Soderbergh’s ‘Black Bag’ is an efficient, breezy spy thriller

Steven Soderbergh this time came up with a relationship drama disguised as a spy movie.

Soderbergh’s ‘Black Bag’ is an efficient, breezy spy thriller

No, you’re not imagining it — movies are getting longer. While the top movies during the Golden Age of Hollywood were around 100 minutes, the average runtime has slowly crept upwards during the ensuing decades.

'Black Bag' Movie Ending Explained: What Does Severus Symbolize?

Black Bag’s ending ultimately revealed the identity of the mole inside MI6, the rat Agent George Woodhouse had been looking for since the beginning of the film. But even though this plotline seems to be the film’s central conflict, I don’t think Steven Soderbergh’s movie was just about the mole or agency’s secret weapon, Severus. The running theme of the film was adultery, where 3 out of 5 special agents suspected of being the rat were unfaithfu…

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Movie Review Black Bag Directed by Steven Soderbergh STEVEN SODERBERGH’S Black Bag — his second feature released in the first three months of 2025 — is arguably his best in years: a stylish, sexy thriller that of all things celebrates the bond of marriage, a relationship espionage writer John Le Carre might have once characterized as a significant weakness in an intelligence officer. Soderbergh taking on a script by David Koepp (who has collabor…

"Black Bag," one of Steven Soderbergh's best films, centers on a pair of spies and investigates a mystery in an entertaining way that echoes Agatha Christie's books.

A spy couple in crisis – that’s the basic situation in Soderbergh’s new film, in which Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender secretly rummage through each other’s marital laundry. Could Soderbergh have finally made a masterpiece? The whole thing is no more than 93 minutes, and that’s a winner in itself.