Black Bag

Name: Black Bag
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: March 14, 2025
Rating: 85

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Focus Features | Release Date: March 14, 2025

Summary: Black Bag is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and his beloved wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

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Justin Chang

Mar 14, 2025

Soderbergh and Koepp, for their part, express their own fervent belief: in the seductive glamour of espionage and the magnetism of Blanchett’s and Fassbender’s interlocking gazes—which is to say, in the enveloping artifice and power of movies. Great is their faithfulness indeed. Read full review

Jim Slotek

Mar 13, 2025

There are not many films on the release schedule with good writing and plotting, wit and solid acting. That’s an exceptional combination in a quick bite of the spy movie genre. Read full review

David Fear

Mar 12, 2025

It’s a great espionage thriller, and an even better scenes-from-a-marriage drama. Ian Fleming would love this. So would Ingmar Bergman. Read full review

The Film Verdict Alonso Duralde

Mar 6, 2025

Black Bag is a not-quite-quotidian spy movie. The stakes are the fate of a relationship, not the fate of the world, and all the pieces come together to make human drama even more interesting than potential apocalypse. Read full review

i Christina Newland

Mar 14, 2025

It’s great fun to watch two actors of such calibre play these wicked games of mistrust and deception – it’s even more fun to see Soderbergh handle his story so deftly. Read full review

Empire John Nugent

Mar 6, 2025

Its pleasures lie in the dialogue, the twists, the reveals. It all leads to a delightful Agatha Christie-style drawing room denouement, in which the rat is exposed, their best-laid plans laid to waste. Like the film as a whole, it’s deliciously, lip-smackingly satisfying. Read full review

Mark Hanson

Mar 7, 2025

By the time the film comes to the end of its brisk runtime, it feels like nothing much has actually happened, despite all the narrative convolutions. Read full review

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