THE MASTERMIND
Two 2025 Gotham Awards nominations: Best Director and Outstanding Lead Performance (Josh O’Connor); Top 10 Independent Film, 2025 National Board of Review Awards
With an artful eye and jazzy unpredictability, Kelly Reichardt unravels the threads of the heist film to create something quieter, stranger and more searching. Josh O’Connor is unmissable as J.B. Mooney, a disillusioned family man and would-be criminal kicking about in 1970s suburban Massachusetts. With his bullish confidence masking deep uncertainty, J.B. convinces himself that stealing a small group of modern artworks from a local museum will give shape to his stalled life. But what begins as a carefully imagined plan gradually unravels, as missed signals, misjudgments and the weight of responsibility close in. O’Connor anchors the film with a performance that simultaneously captures confidence and creeping doubt, lending rumpled discontent to this ironic, wry vision of American individualism. Featuring an excellent supporting cast including Alana Haim, Gaby Hoffmann, Hope Davis and John Magaro, THE MASTERMIND debuted to acclaim at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. (Note adapted from MUBI.) DIR/SCR Kelly Reichardt; PROD Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani. U.S./UK, 2025, color, 110 min. RATED R
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, February 13, 2026
Genre: Crime
