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,

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.

Noisy and explosive (think James Bond and Mission: Impossible) or clever and quiet (think Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).

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.

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,

Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender 's new spy thriller Black Bag has debuted with a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes following its first reviews. The Steven Soderbergh-directed film, which arrives in cinemas on March 14, stars the pair as husband-and-wife intelligence agents Kathryn and George Woodhouse.