"THE OUTFIT" (2022) Directed by Graham Moore

The Outfit is Graham Moore’s directorial film debut and one that had a stage play feel to it, centring as it does in arguably just three rooms of a tailor’s shop in Chicago in 1956. Aside from glimpses into an outside world beyond the shop’s front door and perhaps a room or two obliquely seen in the background, the film is grounded in a light filled reception area, a middle larger room, a smaller one behind, and each room darker than the one before. But where these simple facts should have added more claustrophobic doom to proceedings, they didn’t. Despite our capture within the same repeating walls of familiar rooms, the building menace and gratuitous violence (when it arrives) doesn’t particularly shock or jar and the revelation of the “rat” or the insider is obvious way before it’s eventual reveal.

Ostensibly it’s a film of a rube, a placeman, a drop box and the cash shakedowns from local Mafia bosses but what I found most endearing was the performance of the film’s leading man, and his chameleon like qualities that blended perfectly into the madness unfolding around him.

The above opening paragraphs are taken from my spoiler free review of "The Outfit" originally penned and published to my Medium blog site on 15th April 2022 and which can be read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my Substack blog site and article linked immediately below:

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