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Josh O’Connor Is at His Hangdog Dirtbag Best in The Mastermind
Kelly Reichardt’s wonderful new movie features O’Connor’s best performance to date.
Most of us hit that wall early, if we were ever lucky enough to coast on the quality at all, but James Blaine Mooney — a father, husband, and aspiring art thief — has managed to reach adulthood relatively unchallenged on his bullshit. His target, for reasons dripped out later, is a set of abstracts from the lesser-known American painter Arthur Dove, which are hanging in a fictional museum in the real town of Framingham, Massachusetts. O’Connor exudes the noncommittal aura of his character’s arrested development so skillfully — this is his best performance to date — that his shock when someone (usually a woman) finally gets fed up with him becomes something of an ongoing joke.
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