At first blush, “Kelly Reichardt” and “heist movie” don’t feel like they belong in the same sentence, but The Mastermind illustrates how the filmmaker can use her minimalist aesthetic to expand the ...

Art thieves are so back. The opening cut of Kelly Reichardt’s newest film, “The Mastermind,” positions the viewer from the perspective of a painting that James “J.B.” Mooney (Josh O’Connor) stares at.

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Of all things, Kelly Reichardt's bumbling art thief steals four paintings by American Modernist Arthur Dove, not exactly an art star. The film takes place in 1970, and the costumes, boxy cars, earth ...

In a cinematic landscape preoccupied with noise and spectacle, Kelly Reichardt has built a three-decade career out of embracing the quiet. From 2008’s Wendy and Lucy and 2016’s Certain Women to 2019’s ...