Mark Rylance’s foundational performance almost is reason enough to recommend “The Outfit.”
The small-scale crime drama — in which Rylance stars as an English tailor now operating a shop in 1950s Chicago, where many of his regular clients are dangerous gangsters — benefits greatly from the actor.
Rylance, who is exceptional in his Academy Award-winning turn in Steven Spielberg’s 2015 historical drama, “Bridge of Spies,” sometimes is betrayed by roles in which perhaps no actor could thrive. (Watch him as a powerful and aloof tech-industry magnate in last year’s “Don’t Look Up” for a recent example.)
