‘The Outfit’ Film Review: Gangster Drama About Mob Tailor Loses the Thread Berlinale 2022: Screenwriter Graham Moore’s directorial debut plays like the first draft of a theater piece rather ...

Shot on a sound stage in London, the film boasts a set that has been designed and dressed (under the supervision of Gemma Jackson) to represent a gentleman’s outfitters in Chicago in the mid-1950s.

The Outfit still stands out, if for no other reason than it’s a movie by adults for adults in an age of off-the-rack blockbusters and knock-off prestige pics.

The Outfit starts to resemble twisty, violent puzzle-plays such as Sleuth, with clockwork greased by a cast used to such stage confections, and final revelations of almost transformative satisfaction.

Mark Rylance’s foundational performance almost is reason enough to recommend “The Outfit.” The small-scale crime drama — in which Rylance stars as an English tailor now operating a shop in ...

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Having spent most of his career writing, Moore always knew he would make his theatrical debut with “The Outfit.” “I wanted to try my hand at making a film myself,” he said.