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Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh's slick, stylish and endlessly entertaining new film, is equal parts spy thriller and marriage drama distilled into a taut 90-minuter.

Since Miss Huang was first introduced as the Severed Floor’s mysterious new deputy manager in Severance‘s Season 2 premiere, Sarah Bock’s character has been called everything from a child ...

Director Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp have teamed up before, most recently with the 2024 thriller Presence. This time, this unconventional spy drama takes people behind the lives of ...

Following January’s haunted-houser Presence, this is Steven Soderbergh’s second 2025 team-up with screenwriter David Koepp, and this one’s an absolute gas: a zippy, London-set spy yarn about the hunt ...

It feels like only yesterday that I was recommending a new movie from the director Steven Soderbergh and the screenwriter David Koepp. Actually, it was about two months ago; the movie was Presence ...

Black Bag is scripted by David Koepp, who also wrote Presence, as well as Jurassic Park (1993), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Spider-Man (2002) among many other whoppers, so he's no one-trick ...

Steven Soderbergh’s work ethic is so legendary that there’s a joke about it: “In the time it took me to say this, he made another movie.” And although Soderbergh is not opposed to using ...

This was very intentional, stemming from David Koepp's script and Soderbergh's direction. In his research, Soderbergh was struck by how much psychology and interpersonal relationships dominate ...

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