So she recruited an amazing cast to enact the drama of a family after Grandma Mabel (June Squibb, Nebraska) dies, and has everyone assemble on Zoom to watch her last video testament: “If you’re seeing this, I’m not with you anymore. Now that Covid has us all seeing each other in little boxes on Zoom instead of in person, it struck writer/director Stephanie Laing ( Irreplaceable You, Veep) that our gatherings resemble The Hollywood Squares. Watch it: The Outfit, coming March 18 to theaters
You won’t likely find better acting in any film this year.
Writer/director Graham Moore, who wrote the Oscar-winning The Imitation Game, crafts a tense thriller that’s like a cross between Sleuth and Reservoir Dogs - he keeps you guessing. The FBI has bugged the tailor shop (which really happened in 1950s Chicago), the mob is hunting whoever ratted on them, and the tailor tries to protect his receptionist, who’s like a daughter to him (Zoey Deutch, a ringer for her mother, Lea Thompson).
They use his shop to stash stuff they don’t want cops or rivals to find, and when one mafioso gets shot, the tailor stitches him up. Mark Rylance, who stole Don’t Look Up from Leo DiCaprio and Bridge of Spies from Tom Hanks, plays a self-deprecating, London-trained tailor in 1956 Chicago who matches wits with his customers, dumb young gangsters who underestimate him (excellent Dylan O’Brien and Johnny Flynn) and one smart old gangster (Rylance’s fellow British stage great Simon Russell Beale).
0 kommentar(er)
