Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are set to star in Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller, Black Bag, and this is what you should watch beforehand.

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.

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,

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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.

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.