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