God bless 90 minute popcorn movies. After years of not talking shop at home, a married spy couple get drawn into the search for a mole in their service and George (Michael Fassbender) comes up with a list of suspects including his wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). Bookended by a pair of all-timer tense dinner scenes, BLACK BAG is an espionage movie very much in the lowkey mould of Le Carré; clever, duplicitous people standing in grey rooms talking while the world outside holds its breath. Don’t expect high-octane action but do expect finely-tuned character work and dialogue that says far more in its subtext than text from rarely-better screenwriter David Koepp. The final twists are perhaps a little too telegraphed, but the cast, particularly Fassbender, Blanchett and Tom Burke, carry you through Steven Soderbergh’s best in years. You will be glued to the screen by this efficient, all-killer-no-filler thriller. SSP