Reuters

What is so special about TikTok's algorithm?

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...
Decider

If You Loved 'Wake Up Dead Man,' Watch 'The Mastermind' A Very Different But Equally Hilarious Josh O'Connor Movie

If you loved Josh O’Connor’s performance in the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man—which began streaming on Netflix over the weekend, and quickly shot to the top of the streamer’s Top Trending ...
TechCrunch

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
TheWrap

‘The Mastermind’ Director Kelly Reichardt on What It Takes to Be an Independent Director These Days

“The Mastermind,” Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, loosely based on an actual robbery of a Massachusetts art museum in the early 1970s, has only been out for a few hours. But already somebody has bought ...
NPR

Still thinking about the Louvre? 'The Mastermind' is about a museum heist gone awry

Ever since The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston's 1950 film about a jewel robbery, audiences and filmmakers have loved heist movies. You get the precise laying out of the plan, the robbery itself, the ...
The Boston Globe

‘The Mastermind’ plans an art heist in Framingham

The New York Film Festival guide called “The Mastermind” “an anti-thriller.” I can’t think of a better description for writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest; it’s a heist movie that has neither ...
The Atlantic

The Worst Art Thief in America

The director Kelly Reichardt encourages stillness. Her style—long takes and low stakes, often punctuated by unhurried silences—forces viewers to slow down, to immerse themselves in the atmosphere ...
IndieWire

How ‘The Mastermind’ Found 1970s New England in Ohio

Director Kelly Reichardt tells IndieWire about sending Josh O'Connor's art thief through the haze of the 1970s. But Kelly Reichardt hasn’t made a heist film. As is the writer and director’s wont, ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

'The Mastermind,' filmed in Cincinnati, stars Josh O'Connor as the world's worst criminal

"The Mastermind” opens in some U.S. markets Oct. 17 but will officially open in Cincinnati theaters Oct. 24. This story has been updated with that clarification. Spoiler alert! This article contains ...
Los Angeles Times

Josh O’Connor excels as a half-smart crook in the gently mocking ‘The Mastermind’

Kelly Reichardt’s watchful cinema is one of the indie world’s most exquisite bounties, a space for pioneers (“Meek’s Cutoff,” “First Cow”), artists (“Showing Up”) and wanderers (“Old Joy,” “Wendy and ...
The New Yorker

Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” Reinvents the Heist Movie

One of the joys of reviewing movies is witnessing a longtime filmmaker’s artistic breakthrough, as has happened with Kelly Reichardt. A serious director with a principled world view, she formerly ...