A brand new Kelly Reichardt film is at all times trigger for celebration, and this fall will see her return to the large display with “The Mastermind.” The Josh O’Connor automobile sees the famously deliberate director taking her abilities to New England within the Nineteen Seventies, with the actor starring as a carpenter who makes a regrettable profession pivot into artwork theft.
An official synopsis for the movie reads: “In a sedate nook of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor), an unemployed carpenter turned newbie artwork thief, plans his first huge heist. When issues go haywire, his life unravels.”
“The Mastermind” premiered in competitors on the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant, the place critics praised Reichardt for branching out from her typical Pacific Northwest places and subject material whereas nonetheless preserving her distinct model intact.
“Shot on movie with the grainy heat that evokes a sleepy 1970 New England municipality as a lot because it does precise motion pictures from the ‘70s, ‘The Mastermind’ is Reichardt’s model of a heist film — which means that the filmmaker hijacks conventions laid by filmmakers like Jean-Pierre Melville and Sidney Lumet for a spin that also retains her affected person bent for lengthy, luxuriating takes,” IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio wrote in his Cannes evaluation. “Right here, Josh O’Connor performs J.B. Mooney (what a reputation!), an artwork thief who falls down a gap of his personal digging, as a poorly hatched job to tear off a sequence of Arthur Dove summary work from a fictional Massachusetts museum sends his personal and household lives careening out of his grasp.”
“The Mastermind” is written and directed by Kelly Reichardt, who reunites along with her frequent cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt. Along with O’Connor, the movie stars Alana Haim, Gaby Hoffman, John Magaro, Hope Davis, and Invoice Camp. The movie will subsequent display on the New York Movie Pageant alongside different Cannes, Venice, and Toronto favorites and premieres like Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Factor On?”
The movie is a part of an enormous fall for O’Connor, who additionally stars alongside Paul Mescal in “The Historical past of Sound” and in Rian Johnson’s new “Knives Out” thriller “Wake Up Useless Man.” Subsequent spring, he stars alongside Emily Blunt in Steven Spielberg’s untitled UFO blockbuster.
A MUBI launch, “The Mastermind” opens in choose theaters on Friday, October 17. Watch the trailer under.
