“The Mastermind,” Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, loosely based on an actual robbery of a Massachusetts art museum in the early 1970s, has only been out for a few hours. But already somebody has bought ...

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Ever since The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston's 1950 film about a jewel robbery, audiences and filmmakers have loved heist movies. You get the precise laying out of the plan, the robbery itself, the ...

In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels. The Mastermind shows Kelly ...

The New York Film Festival guide called “The Mastermind” “an anti-thriller.” I can’t think of a better description for writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest; it’s a heist movie that has neither ...

The director Kelly Reichardt encourages stillness. Her style—long takes and low stakes, often punctuated by unhurried silences—forces viewers to slow down, to immerse themselves in the atmosphere ...

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Director Kelly Reichardt tells IndieWire about sending Josh O'Connor's art thief through the haze of the 1970s. But Kelly Reichardt hasn’t made a heist film. As is the writer and director’s wont, ...

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, ...

"The Mastermind” opens in some U.S. markets Oct. 17 but will officially open in Cincinnati theaters Oct. 24. This story has been updated with that clarification. Spoiler alert! This article contains ...

The Mastermind may be billed as a heist movie, but that categorization does the movie a disservice. If anything, director Kelly Reichardt's latest is an anti-heist movie, with the heist being almost ...

“The Mastermind,” a 1970s-style character portrait of an art thief from writer-director Kelly Reichardt (“Old Joy,” “Meek’s Cutoff,” First Cow”), is perfectly titled. It captures the way the thief ...