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THE OUTFIT (15)

Mark Rylance lifts a stagey tale of cross-stitches and double-crosses in Fifties Chicago

BRIAN VINER: The twists get sillier and the dialogue cornier as The Outfit creaks towards its improbable ending without ever leaving the shop, compounding the stagey feel.

Second Take is an occasional feature that revisits movies currently playing in theaters.

ComingSoon's The Outfit review explains how Graham Moore's latest film doesn't exactly break the mold, but does result in a solid thriller.

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

The Outfit is in many ways a finely crafted thriller. But it’s messy all the same.

'The Outfit,' is a taut, claustrophobically gripping, beautifully acted period piece set entirely in the rooms of a neighborhood tailor shop frequent...

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.

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.