The Outfit tells a great story – sure to keep viewers enthralled – but there are elements of its execution that fall by the wayside.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2022

It is a pleasure to see a good yarn played out in such professional fashion. Just try not to think of the awful pun in the title.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2022

It’s chiefly a work of cinematic craft, not art -- though that’s not necessarily a derogatory label, since there’s so much pleasure to be found in its construction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2022

Rylance can hang another immaculate screen performance in the wardrobe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 7, 2022

Rylance’s heart may belong to the theatre, but the camera adores him. The old faker... he’s in a class of his own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2022

The Outfit follows a pattern set by countless gangster flicks of the past, but its freshness is in the intelligence and surprise of the script. Like a well-made suit, it’s not old-fashioned — it’s classic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 7, 2022

Compelling performances make it worth sticking through one quite silly climactic beat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2022

Deutch is charming but isn’t given enough to work with, and Rylance offers a strong performance but is countered by uneven acting from the ensemble cast and an overall lack of development for most of the characters.

| Mar 24, 2022

It’s fitting that Mark Rylance plays a Savile Row tailor in The Outfit as the film itself feels tailor-made to the British actor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2022

Rylance is the actor as clockmaker, working with ratchets and cogs and somehow creating something bigger than life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2022

A cheap, talky and stagy chamber drama that thinks it is clever.... Rylance's fine underplaying cannot save "The Outfit" from being second-rate.

| Mar 18, 2022

The pleasures of writer-director Graham Moore’s intimate little crime thriller The Outfit sneak up on you with the same glissando shiver that you feel when you slip on a silk-lined coat.

| Mar 18, 2022

The Outfit is a movie cut and tailored to Mark Rylance’s quivering intonations, to his pursed lips and fragile presence.

| Mar 18, 2022

Movies rarely come as chic as The Outfit, a thrifty, continually unpredictable whodunit, fashioned with the same meticulousness found in the bones of a deceptively simple suit.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2022

The movie lags when Rylance isn't the focus but, fortunately, he is at center stage for most of "The Outfit."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2022

“The Outfit” would be a splendid thing if limited to Rylance’s voiceover and long lingering shots of him working with fabrics.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 18, 2022

Even those of us who go wild for twists may wonder, as the narrative enters yet another chicane, if we are getting too much of a good thing. To be kept guessing is not quite the same as being thrilled.

| Mar 18, 2022

The Outfit is almost comically insistent that it be rewarded for its cleverness. During the films one eye-catching montage, the editing cuts again and again to shots of scissors as though it simply must demand applause.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 18, 2022

A watchable mafia movie — shocking!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2022

"The Outfit" isn't flashy or attention-grabbing, but it's an assuming, subtle surprise, the kind that never goes out of style.

| Original Score: B | Mar 18, 2022