The Aisle Seat: “The Outfit”: A Well-Cut Thriller
4 min readMar 25, 2022
In this era of excess, The Outfit stands apart as a pleasingly stripped down, tightly woven crime drama, set on a single night on a single set, featuring a small menagerie of characters caught in a deadly dispute, all of it sewn up in less than two hours.
We’re in Chicago, 1956, on a blustery cold winter night. Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance) is a fastidious, first-rate Savile…
