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Black Bag Has Renewed My Faith in Modern Cinema
The slick thriller starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett makes monogamy look hot. That’s how good this Steven Soderbergh film is.
Soderbergh’s camera graces Fassbender’s George, an intelligence agent arriving for a meeting with a vaping Gustaf Skarsgård, who is passing along a list of names — suspected traitors involved in stealing Severus, a top-secret software that destabilizes nuclear reactors and could lead to international disaster. There’s Dr. Zoe Vaughan (Naomie Harris), a Catholic psychiatrist who clears the agents for duty, and who is dating James Stokes (Regé-Jean Page), a recently promoted (thanks to George’s recommendation) colonel. As a tale of international intrigue, Black Bag can be as severe as the jet-black, thick-rimmed glasses that appear on George’s face, but just beneath the surface is that enrapturing intensity and a psychic messiness that easily spills out.
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