Netflix Is Officially Removing the Action-Thriller That Asks “What If Guy Ritchie Directed John Wick?”
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Netflix will remove *The Outfit*, Graham Moore’s 2022 crime thriller starring Mark Rylance, on 2 November. Its departure gives viewers about a week to watch a film that draws on the contained criminal-world atmosphere of *John Wick* and Guy Ritchie’s crime stories.
Set in 1950s Chicago, the film follows English tailor Leonard Burling, whose shop serves gangsters and becomes the centre of a tense story. Made on a reported $5 million budget, it earned around $4 million in cinemas; it has since received a 92% audience score and an 86% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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In short
- *The Outfit* leaves Netflix on 2 November.
- Mark Rylance plays a tailor serving Chicago gangsters.
- The film earned stronger ratings than box-office results.
How this story developed
- 1 hour ago Netflix will remove *The Outfit*, Graham Moore’s 2022 crime thriller starring Mark Rylance, on 2 November. Its departure gives viewers about a week to watch a film that draws on the contained criminal-world atmosphere of *John Wick* and Guy Ritchie’s crime stories.
Full account
The Outfit, the 2022 crime thriller starring Mark Rylance, is due to leave Netflix in the United States on 2 November. Its departure gives subscribers a short window to watch a film that builds its suspense largely within one Chicago tailor’s shop. Streaming availability varies by country, so the date should not be assumed to apply to every Netflix catalogue.
Rylance plays Leonard, an English cutter whose business serves men connected to the local Irish mob. When a violent dispute reaches his shop, the careful routines of his working day give way to threats, shifting loyalties and attempts to work out whom he can trust. Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn and Dylan O’Brien are among the cast. The confined setting keeps the focus on conversations and small changes in behaviour as the danger grows.
The headline’s comparison with Guy Ritchie and John Wick is a way of describing the film’s appeal, rather than a production connection. Its gangland rivalries recall Ritchie’s crime stories, while the shop’s uneasy status as a place used by criminals invites a comparison with the Continental hotel in the John Wick films. The Outfit, however, is directed by Graham Moore and places more weight on deception and contained tension than on extended action sequences.
For viewers interested in a crime thriller led by Rylance, the impending removal is the practical news: The Outfit remains listed on US Netflix for now, with 2 November shown as its departure date. The available reports do not establish where it will stream afterwards. As with other licensed titles, viewers should check the listing in their own region before relying on a removal date reported for the US.
Where outlets differ
From the full account, which is AI-written from the sources:
Source 1 focuses on The Outfit and frames it through comparisons with Guy Ritchie and John Wick. Source 2 discusses Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nightcrawler, a different film, and provides no corroboration for The Outfit’s removal. The supplied Source 1 excerpt says the film has about a week left but does not give an exact date; a separate Netflix availability listing gives 2 November for the US.
Explained simply
The Outfit is a crime thriller set in 1950s Chicago, where organised crime shaped life in some neighbourhoods. Its central character, Leonard Burling, is an English tailor whose shop makes clothes for local gangsters.
Mark Rylance plays Leonard, and Graham Moore directed the film. The story centres on the people who pass through the shop and the risks of serving a criminal underworld, giving the film a contained setting rather than following gangsters across the city.