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.

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

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.

No one’s movies move quite like Steven Soderbergh’s, and he continues to hone his unique cinematic rhythms with Black Bag. A spy thriller that feels like a cross between John le Carré and Agatha Christie,

The MacGuffin in this film is Severus, a digital worm that can wriggle itself right into the heart of a nuclear facility, allowing unsanctioned control over its core. Upon receiving a list of five names from a trusted colleague,

The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag immediately caught my eye. There was something very enthralling about its sleek restraint and its overwhelming sexiness, delivered more in the twinkle of Cate Blanchett’s eye and the polished repression of Michael Fassbender’s rigid spine than in any kind of baring of skin.

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,

Black Bag opens in theaters Friday, March 14. Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp make one hell of a creative pair. After the paranoid pandemic thriller KIMI and the paranormal first-person-POV drama Presence,