Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’ Taps Worcester Art Heist

'The Mastermind' Redefines the Heist Movie

MUBILeave it to Kelly Reichardt, writer-director of such sleepy, slow-burning dramas as First Cow and Wendy and Lucy, to make the anti-heist movie. The Mastermind, her shaggy, ‘70s-set film starring Josh O’Connor as the orchestrator of an art museum robbery gone wrong, channels the kind of shaggy ‘70s capers that defined the genre — without any of the sleek, satisfying results of a heist flick. Instead, The Mastermind feels more true to the sinu…

Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’ taps Worcester Art heist

Among the most successful of American independent filmmakers, writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s unexpected and often comical heist film “The Mastermind” opens Friday. With this, her ninth picture, Reichardt takes her life-long fascination with large scale thievery and unreels a museum robbery that ranks as amazingly inept. As the so-called brains, James Blaine Mooney, aka J.B. (played by Josh O’Connor), is surprised at how unlike the reality was…

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The Mastermind is Kelly Reichardt’s anti-heist movie

Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her loudest movie yet and definitely her biggest budget to date. Reichardt even set out to make something different from her previous work - which includes First Cow, Showing Up, and Wendy and Lucy - only to get back to the editing room and realize, "Oh, …

Time Has Told Me

Paint work: Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date