Kelly Reichardt directs Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim and John Magaro in this low key crime movie about a struggling family man who plots to steal art from a suburban museum.

Muted, realist take on The Passenger and The Thomas Crown Affair. The lackadaisical free wheelin’ pace is unlike any heist movie you’ve ever seen. Really this is a character study of a blank, albeit a blank trying to be a somebody. In that respect Chaplin’s dishevelled Little Tramp feels like an undertone. There are pregnant moments as our cypher abandons the standard life. O’Connor does a lot with a little. By close of play we are clinging onto, almost aggressively, a frippery. With Reichardt all out challenging you to care about a nobody embracing quiet oblivion while the world around him turns violently.

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