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In a crime-riddled city, no one is ever who they seem.

Dark and brooding in spots, calculating and crackling in others, "The Outfit" is more of a psychological thriller than sweeping epic.

“The Outfit” is a smart movie – here and there, a little too smart for its own...

Everybody has a history. Those words ring true throughout "The Outfit," the new crime drama from author and screenwriter Graham Moore. This marks the directorial debut for Moore who won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 2014's "The Imitation Game." Much like other covid-19 era movies, his film brings together a relatively small cast and lets the drama play out in a single location. Here it's a modest tailor's shop in Gangland Chicago, circa 1956.

The Outfit director and co-writer Graham Moore explains how his own family history inspired the story at the center of the twisty crime thriller.

Graham Moore’s crime drama about a Savile Row tailor in gangland Chicago has not a stitch out of place, but it rarely achieves the claustrophobic menace it aims for.

Mark Rylance, an Oscar winner for "Bridge of Spies," plays a suit cutter from Savile Row facing down the Chicago mob in the crime drama "The Outfit."

We review The Outfit, directed by Graham Moore, and starring Mark Rylance, Dylan O'Brien, Zoey Deutch, and Johnny Flynn

Part of the fun of The Outfit is its continually self-renewing demeanor that will keep the viewers guessing until its final moment.

During the first moments of The Outfit, we see the protagonist (Mark Rylance) cutting fabric for a man’s suit while his voiceover narration starts in on the 228 steps it takes to make the jacket and trousers. We don’t even need to hear his words to see that we’re in the presence of a very careful man who measures