‘The Mastermind’ Review: Josh O’Connor Leads Kelly Reichardt’s Scruffy, Anti-Heist Tale Of Art, Apathy & American Decay [Cannes]

It doesn’t take long to realize that the title of Kelly Reichardt’s latest observation of life on the margins of America is laced with cutting irony. There are no grand geniuses in “The Mastermind,” only ordinary people living in a very ordinary world. So ordinary in fact, that a small, messy art robbery shakes the locals in Massachusetts out of their solemn reveries. So yes, “The Mastermind” is not about one, and this isn’t a heist film, but a clever, dreary, quiet deconstruction of one. Continue reading ‘The Mastermind’ Review: Josh O’Connor Leads Kelly Reichardt’s Scruffy, Anti-Heist Tale Of Art, Apathy & American Decay [Cannes] at The Playlist.

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‘The Mastermind’ Review: Josh O’Connor Leads Kelly Reichardt’s Scruffy, Anti-Heist Tale Of Art, Apathy & American Decay [Cannes]
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It doesn’t take long to realize that the title of Kelly Reichardt’s latest observation of life on the margins of America is laced with cutting irony. There are no grand geniuses in “The Mastermind,” only ordinary people living in a very ordinary world. So ordinary in fact, that a small, messy art robbery shakes the locals in Massachusetts out of their solemn reveries. So yes, “The Mastermind” is not about one, and this isn’t a heist film, but a clever, dreary, quiet deconstruction of one.

Continue reading ‘The Mastermind’ Review: Josh O’Connor Leads Kelly Reichardt’s Scruffy, Anti-Heist Tale Of Art, Apathy & American Decay [Cannes] at The Playlist.