Cutting outfits for gangsters is a brave move

concentration. If you don’t catch it in the cinema, it’s also being streamed on Amazon, so you can watch from the comfort of your own couch. The Outfit is a genuine cinematic oddity, effectively a single-set thriller that spends most of its running time resembling a stage play rather than a feature film. But it’s directed and co-written by Graham Moore, who cowrote The Imitation Game, and has Mark Rylance playing an English tailor (he prefers the term ‘cutter’) who, in the Chicago of 1956, makes a living making suits for local gangsters.

It’s a brave experiment and Rylance is quietly compelling but with too many British actors playing American and plot twists that struggle to convince, it’s one that doesn’t altogether work.

They say that it’s better to travel than arrive which in the case of Compartment Number 6 is certainly true. A young Finnish woman leaves her charismatic lesbian lover behind in Moscow to begin a long train journey to see some ancient stone carvings near Murmansk and finds herself sharing a sleeping compartment with a surly, ill-mannered miner.

Not sure either the stone carvings or the film are quite worth it in the end.