For someone best known as an actor, Bradley Cooper's core interest as a filmmaker is perhaps unsurprising. Thus far, he has been entirely consumed by examinations of performance-first digging into a pop musician's stratospheric career climb in A Star Is Born, then wrestling with Leonard Bernstein's desire to reimagine classical music in . Both movies were hefty pieces of entertainment, filled with love, death, and grand human experiences. His newest, the fetching
Her shaggy, '70s-set film starring Josh O'Connor as the orchestrator of an art museum robbery gone wrong, channels the kind of shaggy '70s capers that defined the genre - without any of the sleek, satisfying results of a heist flick. Instead, The Mastermind feels more true to the sinuous core of '70s neo-noir like Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye: meandering, pensive, and melancholy.