Michael Fassbender cannot lie — the polygraph scene in Black Bag was a bear for him to shoot. Not because he had to pass the test (in fact, his character, George, is the one administering it). But on the page,

“ Black Bag ,” an elegant, quick-witted new thriller that finds Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender playing married spies, isn’t the pair’s first time together on screen. That honor goes to 2017’s “Song to Song,” one of Terrence Malick’s most intangible and head-scratching offerings — though the two stars can barely recall that experience.

In honor of the new spy thriller, 'Black Bag,' Parade sat down with the film's leads including Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Regé-Jean Page, Tom Burke and Naomi Harris to discuss their dinner party dos and don'ts.

Steven Soderbergh's second film of 2025 is even better than the first, an espionage romp destined to be a classic.

Michael Fassbender is a British spy hoping to identify an agency mole who may, in fact, be his own wife (Cate Blanchett) in a thriller from Steven Soderbergh.

Marriage is hard. Marriage between two spies is even harder. But it certainly makes for good onscreen entertainment. And so we have Steven Soderbergh's latest film "Black Bag," starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as two high-level spies who are married to each other.