Josh O’Connor (Mothering Sunday, MVFF44) charms as bumbling scammer JB Mooney. You can’t help but root for the out-of-work architect when he has an epiphany at an art museum—why doesn’t he just steal some paintings and sell them? It’s a bit audacious but he is sure that with the right help, he can pull it off. He does, but nothing goes according to plan. An accomplice drops out, the new one can’t keep his mouth shut, the FBI is onto him, the Mob has caught wind of his scheme, and worst of all, his wife is mad at him. Bolstered by a jazzy score and a cast of recognizable faces, Kelly Reichardt’s (Certain Women, MVFF39) deconstruction of the heist film will have you constantly wondering who JB lies to more: the people in his life or himself. —Bri’anna Moore
Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt’s feature films include River of Grass (1994), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek's Cutoff(2010), Night Moves (2013), Certain Women (2016), First Cow (2019), and Showing Up (2022). She was a 2020 Baby Jane Holzer Visiting Artist in Film at Harvard University, and she is currently the S. William Senfeld Artist-in-Residence at Bard College. A retrospective of Reichardt’s work took place at the Centre Pompidou in October 2021, and she was awarded the 2022 Carrosse d’Or award at Cannes.