Black Bag
2025
**
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Pierce Brosnan, Gustaf Skarsgård, Kae Alexander, Ambika Mod
An NCSC counterintelligence officer is informed that someone in his organisation has leaked a top-secret software program. The five suspects include his wife, while the remaining four form two couples. This slick, dialogue-driven, and visually polished spy drama features a groovy score by David Holmes, and it feels like Steven Soderbergh has made this same film about five times before. The screenplay by David Koepp introduces six characters whose personal and professional relationships are built on deception, but I couldn't care less about any of them or their respective romantic entanglements, and I also lost interest in the identity of the mole. The film owes a great debt to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, another dry spy story with a bespectacled protagonist.
