The Outfit
By Andrew Plimpton March 25, 2022
The well-paced thriller hums along at such a quick clip that it’s easy to hold reservations until after the credits have rolled.
The well-paced thriller hums along at such a quick clip that it’s easy to hold reservations until after the credits have rolled.
A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.
A boxer searches for her younger sister, who may have been abducted by a sex-trafficking ring.
A highly satisfying blend of a modern-day woman’s picture and a tidy, B-movie thriller.
Ruin porn addicts will revel in the film’s rich dinginess, while others may be pulled in by a gruffly sentimental story of a purehearted immigrant putting his life on the line for distinctly lesser men.
What film noir—which this still is even though it is shot in color, and heavy on garish reds—has a 150-minute running time?
A well-acted but scattershot film that works better when it sticks to crime.
A bouillabaisse of a film that mixes, not always successfully, the suspenseful procedural investigation of director Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight with the touching redemption stories of his earlier movies.
A film where the world conspires against its protagonist and every odd camera angle or unidentifiable sound offers proof of the conspiracy.