BLACK BAG
FLIM
Spy vs spy: Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender;
Tuxedos: so last season; A lowerkey espionage movie.
THE NAME’S WOODHOUSE. GEORGE WOODHOUSE
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 94 MINS
DIRECTOR Steven Soderbergh
CAST Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Pierce Brosnan
PLOT Veteran British spy George Woodhouse (Fassbender) is charged with sniffing out a traitor in the midst of his agency. Could the rat be, in fact, his wife Kathryn (Blanchett)?
FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER announcing his retirement, Steven Soderbergh is busier than ever. Black Bag is his second film out this year —it arrives just two months after his unconventional ghost story Presence —and marks his third collaboration with prolific screenwriter David Koepp. And it’s tremendous fun: think Ocean’s Eleven, if they were spies. As least k with his earlier, Vegas-set escapades, KA