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Slow Club

Kelly Reichardt’s new film "The Mastermind" follows James, a struggling carpenter who plans an art heist modeled on a 1972 museum theft. The movie employs deliberate, lingering shots that embody the slow‑cinema aesthetic, forcing audiences to sit with mundane details. Its narrative critiques the fast‑track American entrepreneurial mindset by showing how individual hubris collapses amid broader social turbulence of the early 1970s. The reviewer’s second viewing reveals deeper thematic layers about communal responsibility and the political backdrop of the era.