The Mastermind

Name: The Mastermind
Genre: Crime
Released: October 17, 2025
Rating: 80

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MUBI | Release Date: October 17, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

Genre(s): Crime

Rating: Not Rated

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100

Robert Abele

Oct 17, 2025

One can even detect, in this brilliant, captivating Reichardt gem about fortune and fate, a what-if attached to her disaffected male protagonist: Would today’s version of James, just as adrift and arrogant, steal art to assuage his emptiness? Or, thanks to the internet, succeed at something much worse? “The Mastermind” may be an ironic title as heists go. But it also hints at the male-pattern badness still to come. Read full review

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Jessica Kiang

May 23, 2025

Very possibly her most accessible and enjoyable film to date, still it remains an unmistakably Reichardtian investigation into the fabric of ordinariness and what happens when it frays. Read full review

Shirley Li

Oct 23, 2025

What J. B. has aced is clearly not the art of persuasion or thievery. His real specialty, The Mastermind suggests, is his ability to tune out everything but his own wants and needs. Read full review

The Playlist Iana Murray

May 28, 2025

The Mastermind sees Reinhardt working with a bigger budget and a larger scale, but she never loses her languorous, absorbing sensibilities as a filmmaker. She’s never been better. Read full review

Screen Rant Gregory Nussen

Oct 16, 2025

Through the period and genre trappings of a 1970s heist film, Reichardt explores the inherent isolation of staying neutral at a time of ballooning cultural and political unrest. Read full review

Jocelyn Noveck

Oct 15, 2025

Usually a cinematic heist is spectacular — in its success or its failure. Reichardt has removed all spectacle, telling instead a moody tale of a man who makes a dumb mistake and slowly loses everything, like a tumble down a mountain in slow motion. Read full review

Odie Henderson

Oct 24, 2025

If only this movie weren’t as slow as a sleepwalkng turtle. The story is constructed like one big, dark joke whose punchline isn’t worth sitting through 110 minutes to hear. Read full review

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