Another year, another film by Steven Soderbergh. 2025 has already seen the theatrical release of two films by the great filmmaker, Presence, a supernatural horror film in January, and Black Bag, a slick romantic spy thriller in March, both written by David Koepp. The two films were met with critical acclaim, particularly Black Bag, which is the kind of mid-budget, star-driven movie straight from the 1990s that film fans long to see released regularly. Unfortunately, the film is now synonymous with the current ongoing crisis in Hollywood. It seems like mass audiences have no interest in flocking to theaters to see something like Black Bag, which greatly underperformed at the box office. Soderbergh prefers to play things safe and familiar to a “better time” in moviemaking, but for the betterment of the medium, he’s better off swinging for the fences like he used to.