Film Review - Black Bag (2025)

Black Bag is the new movie by Steven Soderbergh and stars Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as a married couple of spies and Katherine (Blanchett) is accused of stealing the Severus, a deadly weapon that could kill thousands of people if in the wrong hands and so the game is afoot for George (Fassbender) to find who stole it and clear his wife’s name.

Black Bag is a lot of fun and much of that comes down to Soderbergh’s direction, this is a tightly wound piece of filmmaking with little to no fat editorially on the film, Fassbender and Blanchett are also very good both in their individual scenes and as a couple and in those scenes the 2 have some great chemistry.

There are also a slew of good performances in the film as well, Pierce Brosnan/Tom Burke/Marisa Abela/Naomie Harris and Rege Jean Page (who would’ve made an excellent 007) are also very good here and each of them also have some memorable scenes of their own.

But what I liked most about this movie is how it looks into how a marriage can be affected by the same 2 people in the same line of work and how this can potentially create distrust between those people and it is a great credit to Fassbender and Blanchett that they play these scenes very well without it breaking the overall tone of the film.

And so that was Black Bag and it is a tight, well-made spy drama with great performances and between this movie and Mickey 17 2025 is delivering the goods movie wise, I just wish more people would see movies like these cinemas, 3 and a half out of 5.