More seductive than smart, “Black Bag” is a classy diversion about how every relationship finds a certain rhythm, and the bizarre ability for a word like “traitor” to apply in wildly different contexts.

| Original Score: B | Apr 24, 2025

With its artificial aura, Soderbergh pulls off a fast-paced and playful film...though set against a geopolitical backdrop that feels fairly generic.[Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 21, 2025

...[Black Bag is] a splendid, slow-burning spy thriller with a restrained approach that only reaffirms [Steven Soderbergh's] talent for constructing stories with a steady pulse and impeccable style...[Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2025

[Steven] Soderbergh is just about automatic at this point in his career, but Black Bag is a high even for his lofty standards.

| Apr 20, 2025

A spy thriller more interested in the slow poison of doubt than in brute force. If you’re expecting “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” with British accents, look elsewhere. This is “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” for the emotionally entangled.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 18, 2025

Steven Soderbergh surprises with a refined exercise in style sustained by the exaggerated magnetism of Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2025

For those who’ve been waiting for the filmmaker to recapture the magic of his pre-retirement glory days, Black Bag isn’t just a return to form—it’s a reminder of why we fell in love with his filmmaking in the first place.

| Apr 17, 2025

Black Bag is the kind of deliriously fun, sexy, and smooth film people say doesn't get made anymore. It doesn't make a lick of sense if you think about it, but this horny take on Agatha Christie tropes is so much fun, I found myself not caring one bit.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2025

Astute in its dialogue, tone, and pacing, the film is as much Soderbergh's as it is David Koepp's. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2025

Spy games play more like word puzzles than football contests in Black Bag.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2025

If you’re in the mood for a jazzy-sounding, intricately plotted, and well-acted thriller with a deft touch of suspense, Steven Soderbergh’s latest collaboration with David Koepp may be in your wheelhouse.

| Apr 11, 2025

An intriguing film that makes the most of the talents of its great cast to develop a mysterious, dark, and unpredictable narrative that knows how to gradually feed the viewer with true, false, or partially reliable information. [Full review in Spanish].

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 9, 2025

Black Bag is a taut thriller with a romantic streak, or a romantic movie with a thriller edge.

| Apr 7, 2025

Upper-echelon Soderbergh.

| Apr 7, 2025

It is a jigsaw puzzle of a film with all of the characters having to fit to give you the overall picture.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 5, 2025

Writer David Koepp and director Steven Soderbergh deserve a standing ovation for their commitment to economy in storytelling, economy in general being a very rare thing to be applauded for these days.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 4, 2025

Its setup is quite intriguing. Its development is enticingly complex. Its conclusion is rather simple, but it so thoroughly delivers the tingles, that it still feels like a rousing success.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2025

Black Bag is Soderbergh's best since claiming retirement a decade ago. It's so slick, and so cool, it takes me back to the Soderbergh of Out of Sight, Ocean's Eleven and Logan Lucky, while being nothing like those films as well.

| Original Score: A | Apr 4, 2025

Steven Soderbergh pushes the metaphor of the "black bag" to the limit.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 4, 2025

A tight, taut and highly stylish espionage thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2025