Given that many of these have managed to push the genre forward by exploring current political and social issues, the prospect of Steven Soderbergh making an old-fashioned spy thriller about identifying a mole within a powerful institution may have seemed rather antiquated.

Black Bag,” an elegant, quick-witted new thriller that finds Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender playing married spies, isn’t the pair’s first time together on screen. That honor goes to 2017’s “Song to Song,

When George is handed a list of possible traitors, including Kathryn, he immediately sets out to discover whether her wife is lying to him. After an extensive game of cat-and-mouse, which at first appears to indicate Kathryn is playing both sides,

Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play a high-ranking spy couple in Steven Soderbergh's new film. Black Bag offers Bond-style globe-trotting intrigue and marital dramedy.

Marriage is hard. Marriage between two spies is even harder. But it certainly makes for good onscreen entertainment. And so we have Steven Soderbergh's latest film "Black Bag," starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as two high-level spies who are married to each other.

Film critic Peter Travers reviews "Black Bag," by Steven Soderbergh, starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett.

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By casting Pierce Brosnan in Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh weaponizes the instant association audiences have with James Bond to the film's benefit.