Kelly Reichardt , the low-key filmmaker behind pictures like 2019’s First Cow, a study in masculine tenderness set in the 1820s Pacific Northwest, and 2022’s Showing Up , with Michelle Williams as a dedicated artist who's wholly disinterested in social niceties, has never made a heist film. But there’s a first time for everything: in Reichardt’s subdued, vaguely melancholic sort-of comedy The Mastermind, Josh O’Connor plays a ’70s-era Massachusetts dad and husband, a judge’s son with the elegant tri-note name James Blaine Mooney, who hatches an ambitious plan to steal a quartet of paintings from the (fictional) Framingham Museum of Art, enlisting a couple of local goons to help. The theft takes up only about the first third of the movie. The rest of the time, we bear witness a

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