As married spies, Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett lead a cast of duplicitous characters in Steven Soderbergh’s latest.

Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page and Pierce Brosnan flesh out the ensemble in this twisty tale of loyalty and deception among British intelligence agents.

A scene involving George’s clandestine surveillance of Kathryn during a satellite handover is still a tense affair that has a literal countdown clock in play. But what makes the Black Bag difference is the fact that SigInt expert/bad girl Clarissa (Marissa Abela) also uses the opportunity to attempt to flirt with her older co-worker.

Boasting an all-star cast including Blanchett, Fassbender, and Pierce Brosnan, Black Bag "is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn," as per the official synopsis. "When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country."

Continuing to prove that retirement is not just overrated, but a real impediment to an artist’s best work, in “Black Bag,” Steven Soderbergh dashes off a sleek little genre exercise — a doodle really,

There’s something so satisfying about a good spy thriller, and we’ve seen many instances over the years of spouses being turned against each other in the name of espionage. That will be the case again in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag when it hits the 2025 movie calendar,