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Evaluate: Steven Soderbergh’s new film is just about excellent

Editorial Board Published March 11, 2025
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Nearly as dashing and irresistible as a Thirties matinee idol, Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller “Black Bag” seduces and charms, a superbly made cocktail that’s as sparkly and environment friendly as it’s gratifying. David Koepp’s oh-so-witty screenplay meshes with Soderbergh’s sly canon; the duo collaborated on “Kimi” and “Presence”  and are tailor made for artful materials corresponding to this. That applies to its enticing solid, every actor relishing the possibility to toy round together with his or her castmates and doing so with crisp timing and a lot panache.

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett give off physique warmth as an erudite married couple employed as spies employed by England’s Nationwide Cyber Safety Heart. George is a grasp at calling out liars, and is an equal to Thomas Keller within the kitchen. He all the time appears to be like dapper in his crisp, snug-fitting white button-down shirts. Kathryn wafts of sheer magnificence wherever she roams, and is shrewd and  one step forward of anybody round her. She will scent a rat a rustic away. The 2 share a passionate love, but it surely will get threatened when George is instructed she is likely to be a mole and could possibly be transferring round a probably deadly cyber worm. To determine if she’s the responsible occasion or if the perpetrator is certainly one of their 4 colleagues (performed by Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris and Regé-Jean Web page) George throws a fancy feast the place tea will get spilled, as does some blood. The paranoia escalates from there.

There are a boatload of tasty pink herrings to get you snarled within the plot, after which there’s Pierce Brosnan as Kathryn’s smug boss, Arthur Steiglitz. It’s his greatest efficiency shortly. “Black Bag” peppers in dashes of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” in addition to tastes of Hitchcock, Soderbergh’s “Oceans” romp, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and even a jigger of a John le Carré spy thriller. However by no means does it appear by-product or an outright copycat.

Everybody within the solid is impossibly enticing and wears trendy threads that by no means have the indecency to precise one unlucky wrinkle or unseemly seam (costume designer Ellen Mirojnick’s glorious work have to be highlighted) whereas the manufacturing design is filed with eye sweet, and can make owners wish to redesign their kitchen to look one thing akin to what George and Kathryn have. However what’s actually so polished like cutlery about “Black Bag” — moreover its depraved humor and dialogue — is how vivid and absolutely developed every character is. That’s not straightforward for a movie that runs simply over 90 minutes.

Its success isn’t just because of the units, the fashions, the writing and the solid but additionally the director, who additionally serves as cinematographer and editor. He is aware of the best way to be playful and coy however by no means loses sight of the sleight of handiwork he should pull off with confidence and aplomb — identical to the grasp chef George within the kitchen. “Black Bag” is pure film magic, a flaming Cherries Jubilee that you would be able to’t get sufficient of.

‘BLACK BAG’

4 stars of 4

Rated: R (language, some sexual conditions and language

Forged: Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Pierce Brosnan, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris and Regé-Jean Web page

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Working time: 1 hour, 34 minutes

When and the place: Opens March 14 in theaters nationwide

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