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If you have been reading my blogs the last few years, you will know that the films I write about are, on average, between thirty and forty years old.
Black Bag was released in March this year.
It is phenomenal.
Every year I have a little tradition where I share my favourite movies of the year. This year almost all my favourites appeared late in the year; One BAttle After Another, Black Bag, The Lost Bus and The Count of Monte Cristo were all watched towards the end of 2025.
And Black bag topped the lot.
A gorgeous looking spy thriller with a plot that is as tight as a snare drum and fantastic acting all round from a superb cast which includes Cate Blanchett, Michael Faßbender, Naomi Watts and even Pierce Brosnan.
The runtime is quite short and zips by as characters double and triple cross each other, with the mole only discovered at the climax's superb denoument.
A perfect Saturday Night Special that deserved far more appreciation than it did on release. Indeed, director Steven Soderbergh was so disappointed with the box office results (it made less than its production budget) that he wrote an op-ed denouncing the decay of cinema. He's right, too.
If cinema is to survive, films like this one need to be successful, not just the big budget event films. And when they're as good as this one, they should be given the chance.