Given that many of these have managed to push the genre forward by exploring current political and social issues, the prospect of Steven Soderbergh making an old-fashioned spy thriller about identifying a mole within a powerful institution may have seemed rather antiquated.

When George is handed a list of possible traitors, including Kathryn, he immediately sets out to discover whether her wife is lying to him. After an extensive game of cat-and-mouse, which at first appears to indicate Kathryn is playing both sides,