Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Understated auteur Kelly Reichardt's return to more suspenseful genre fare since *Night Moves* (2013) is *The Mastermind*, an art heist-turned-character portrait of a Massachusetts father inching closer to the fringes. A frequent visitor to the sleepy Framingham Museum of Art with his wife and kids, out-of-work architect JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor), enlists a shaggy group of local crooks to swipe a few Arthur Dove paintings from the galleries in broad daylight. As the investigation into the robbery begins, Mooney starts to unravel. Set in 1970, Reichardt skillfully uses an America upended by the Vietnam War and transformed by the Civil Rights Movement as a backdrop for the frenzied and desperate Mooney to stay out of the hands of the authorities. Underpinned by stellar performances from the ensemble, including Hope Davis, Bill Camp, Alana Haim, Gaby Hoffman, and John Magaro, *The Mastermind* is an exemplary Reichardt film with a richly intimate and flawed world, populated by even more textured characters. 2025. USA. Written and directed by Kelly Reichardt. With Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis. DCP courtesy MUBI. 110 min. **$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission** Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact [membership@hammer.ucla.edu](mailto:membership@hammer.ucla.edu). Not a member? [Become one today](https://hammer.ucla.edu/support/membership) for 50% off tickets! [BUY TICKETS](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1964575622572?aff=oddtdtcreator) *MoMA Contenders 2025* is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.