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The Outfit

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The Outfit

2022

Graham Moore

Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, Johnny Flynn ...

6.5

5,573

Drama Chicago, 1956. Former Savile Row tailor Leonard (Mark Rylance) has relocated to the Windy City after a personal tragedy. He is gifted with the infinite capacity to create bespoke suits with precision, patience and care. These beautiful suits soon catch the eye of the only customers who can afford them: a family of gangsters. Leonard in turn demonstrates a loyalty to this band of criminals, led by head of the family Roy Boyle, turning a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Nikki Baughan Screendaily	"Beautifully designed, carefully measured and expertly cut (...) 'The Outfit' expertly plays with the conventions of film noir and the modern thriller"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Graham Moore's directorial debut is stylish, but it's the way he lets the performances shine that impresses most about this well-made gangster picture."	POS
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IndieWire	"Despite Rylance’s effective work and some smart physical staging, the film is ultimately unable to overcome its 'tell, don’t show — then tell again' dialogue"	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"The film is flatteringly and economically cut from fine cloth, cleverly constructed, and only a little marred by flaws in the finishing"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"Mark Rylance grips in top-tier mobster thriller (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"[It] plays like the first draft of a theater piece rather than the thriller it intends to be (...) The overall effect of 'The Outfit' is something performed, rather than lived out"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"The film cheerfully bluffs and misdirects, but crucially it never cheats. It’s also anchored by two richly enjoyable performances (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"Moore has crafted a literate and thrilling gangster picture that brings a fresh touch to a well-worn genre and is blessed to have Rylance"	POS
United States	Gary M. Kramer Salon	"A cheap, talky and stagy chamber drama that thinks it is clever.... Rylance's fine underplaying cannot save 'The Outfit' from being second-rate"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It sometimes feels like a more refined, more well-spoken and well-tailored version of 'Reservoir Dogs' (...) It’s an entertaining, fairly overwrought piece, a little tightly buttoned.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"It's hard not to wish that they kept the storytelling a little simpler and thus more elegant.[It] still stands out"	NEU
United Kingdom	Katie Rosseinsky London Evening Standard	"Mark Rylance gives an extraordinary performance (...) His screen career is going through an especially brilliant patch (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Hong Kong	James Mottram South China Morning Post	"Some will point to the very theatrical nature of the piece; the script would clearly make a great play. But Graham Moore (...) ensures it never feels staid (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Finally, a gangster movie that doesn’t suck (...) Rylance has played a lot of major roles onstage, but has usually been a supporting player onscreen. So it's a pleasure to see him grab focus for once (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Sarah Jane Austin Chronicle	"Think of 'The Outfit' as a play. If Rylance and Beale are working in the West End and Broadway, Flynn is over here working in the ill-advised high school musical version (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Maggie Lovitt Collider	"A riveting mobster mystery all sewn up with a brilliant Mark Rylance performance (...) 'The Outfit' would actually be a brilliant work to adapt for the stage"	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"You leave 'The Outfit' feeling like you have seen something rich, ravishing, and sumptuous. For a film that goes about its business through such limited resources, that's quite a triumph (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"'The Outfit is made to measure for Mark Rylance (...) Graham Moore's crime drama has not a stitch out of place, but it rarely achieves the claustrophobic menace it aims for"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Mostly, the movie seems like it was concocted by a couple of cinephiles who wanted to play with genre for genre’s sake. And why not?"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Taut, beautifully acted period piece (...) Moore sets up the chess board in masterful fashion, and our only job is to sit back and enjoy how the strategies play out (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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