If you asked every Kelly Reichardt fan to blindly predict how the auteur would follow the 2022 release of “Showing Up,” nobody would have guessed she’d make an art heist movie set in New England. But watch a few minutes of “The Mastermind” and you’ll see that it’s a Reichardt film in every sense, even if it externally seems like a departure from the themes and locales she usually prefers.
Loosely inspired by a 1970 news story in which an art museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, was robbed while two teenage girls did homework in the gallery, the ironically titled film stars Josh O’Connor as a working-class family man who ruins his life in record time after making the impulsive decision to rip off his own local museum. Unsurprisingly, the film is far more interested in exploring the psyche of O’Connor’s J.B. Mooney than dazzling you with art heist spectacle,…
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