The Outfit

The Outfit

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

  • Released: 2022-03-18
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thrillers
  • Stars: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O'Brien, Johnny Flynn, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Simon Russell Beale, Alan Mehdizadeh, Johnathan McClain, Scoop Wasserstein, Chiedu Agborh, Michael Addo, Michal Forejtek, Bmcabana Sf, John Gumley-Mason, Stephen Knox, Lauris Karklins, Steve Chatfield, William Keetch, Ryan Hall
  • Director: Graham Moore
 Comments
  • MOscarbradley - 8 January 2023
    In its own small way, close to perfect.
    In this cleverly title picture Mark Rylance is the bespoke tailor in 1950's Chicago who finds himself caught in the middle of a gang war. "The Outfit" of the title could refer to the kind of outfit who kill people or to the kind that Rylance makes in his workshop. The action never leaves said workshop yet director Graham Moore never lets the tension flag.

    Rylance, as ever, is superb and there's excellent supporting work from Zoey Deutch as the receptionist in over her head and from Dylan O'Brien, Johnny Flynn and a delightfully over-the-top Simon Russell Beale as various goodfellas. There's also a very nice streak of black humour running through the film and while this may be a 'small' picture it is, in its own way, close to perfect.
  • andletlive - 2 January 2023
    Excellent
    This is one of the best films I've watched in a long time.

    More than an action crime flic, with only a few guns and no special effects or karate kicks, or scantly-dressed models acting tough beyond belief, this is a very, very well-crafted story.

    The title is deceiving -- clever, but hardly telling of the chess-level power-play, complicated by ambition, loyalty, jealousy, deception... taking place in a small shop.

    A couple of characters could have been better casted, but the acting ranges from very good to great, and so is the direction.

    Not perfect, but very close. The writing is intelligent, suspenseful, with unexpected turns. Too bad more money is put into lesser work.

    I am glad I found it. Very enjoyable, if you chose to use your brain and not only your eyes.