The Mastermind12A

Directed by Kelly Reichardt | USA | 2025 | 1h 50m | Starring Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Sterling Thompson, Jasper Thompson, Bill Camp

In early 1970s America, a quiet family man impulsively orchestrates a heist at a small-town art museum, escaping with a cache of modern masterpieces — and no plan for what comes next. Set against the backdrop of Nixon-era political disillusionment, Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Wendy and Lucy) crafts a wry, slow-burning subversion of the heist film, anchored by Josh O’Connor’s (La Chimera, Challengers) understated brilliance.

Reviews

‘Obviously, you wouldn’t expect the quietist, realist movie art of Kelly Reichardt to give us anything like Ocean’s Eleven or Reservoir Dogs…Reichardt has unerringly located the unglamour in the heist.’
★★★★
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Book tickets

Sunday 16 November

7.30pmBook tickets
Wednesday 19 November

Descriptive Subtitles

4.00pmBook tickets

What else is on?

Today (Sunday 16th November)

19:30

The Mastermind 12A
1h 50m
A mild-mannered man steals priceless art from a small-town museum, sparking a quiet crisis of purpose. Josh O’Connor shines in Kelly Reichardt’s wry, slow-burn heist drama set amid 1970s America’s political disillusionment and moral uncertainty.

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Tomorrow (Monday 17th November)

18:00

Relay 15
1h 51m
A solitary fixer protecting whistleblowers is drawn into deadly danger when a biotech scientist seeks her help. Lily James and Riz Ahmed ignite David Mackenzie’s high-stakes conspiracy thriller, a razor-sharp chase through today’s landscape of secrets and surveillance.

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20:30

Bugonia 15
1h 58m
Two conspiracy-obsessed cousins kidnap a tech CEO they believe is an alien overlord. Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkly comic, unsettling satire about paranoia, misinformation, and the terrifying absurdity of the modern age.

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Plan your visit

Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!