The Mastermind

"Quietly gripping."

"This film is stupendously smart."

"Gently melancholic."

"O’Connor exudes the noncommittal aura of his character's arrested development so skillfully."

"Brilliantly turns the genre on its head."

"An unmistakably Reichardtian investigation into the fabric of ordinariness."

"An artful exercise in genre reinvention."

"Dry and deadpan."

"Crackingly, urgently alive, an assured and magnificent addition to an already storied body of work."

"Reichardt observes every moment of it... with her usual dolorous, low-key mastery."

"A perceptive portrait."

"It lives entirely in the mundane, yet, at 95 minutes, whisks by like a breeze."

"Haim is rather wasted in the nothingy ball-and-chain role of Terri."

"Laid-back to the point of non-existent."

"The film spins its wheels toward the end."

"A wonderfully-judged performance from O'Connor."

"Immediately engaging in its opaqueness."

"A confusing mix of tones with a fairly basic concept that rarely dips below the surface."