The Outfit
Focus Features | Release Date: March 18, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
31
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyApr 7, 2022
Even when Leonard’s chatting away with his semi-captors, his words seem rather weightless, as if they were something simply to fill the air while his mind quietly calculates his next move. He’s like a chess master, in a way, and few actors could maintain that magnetic stillness quite like Rylance, who always seems to express so much while doing so little. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMar 21, 2022
What Moore’s film strives toward, and touches only erratically, is an emotional claustrophobia to match its physical squeeze. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisMar 17, 2022
Sometimes, all you need in a movie is a great actor — well, almost all. Certainly Rylance’s presence enriches The Outfit, a moderately amusing gangster flick that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 15, 2022
It’s an entertaining, fairly overwrought piece, a little tightly buttoned. Read full review
58
IndieWireSiddhant AdlakhaFeb 15, 2022
Try as it might, its story of a good man caught in a bad situation is bogged down by empty reveals, and by a plot that tries to fool you without first earning your investment. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalAmy NicholsonMar 17, 2022
The story’s pleasures are more literary than cinematic. On screen, it’s more obvious that Mr. Moore’s ideas don’t quite line up. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyMar 17, 2022
The Outfit would be a splendid thing if limited to Rylance’s voiceover and long lingering shots of him working with fabrics. Read full review
42
TheWrapRobert AbeleFeb 15, 2022
What The Outfit doesn’t generate much of is organic suspense. With an air of duplicitousness telegraphed early on, and a handful of scenes coming off like information dumps instead of natural exchanges, many of the story mechanics strain for believability. Read full review
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