It’s not the first time the budding superstar has played an offbeat criminal – he was a grave robber with a divining rod staging heists of a different kind in Alice Rohrwacher’s rousing La Chimera – but in Reichardt’s hands, O’Connor’s “mastermind” establishes a new level of realistic haplessness. The loose cannon pulls a gun on a little girl and they have to rough up a security guard and J.B. can’t speed away with that car in the drive idling lazily in front of him and when he finally picks up the boys one of them throws up from overindulging in junk food, but the endeavor’s nevertheless a “success,” because they don’t get caught. Deep into the film, we may still be wondering where all this is going exactly, but Reichardt delivers a fascinating, funny and profoundly ironic conclusion that reframes a lot of what came before it, and rewards us for noting what’s been in the edges of the frame the whole time: the real story.
Author: mliss1578
Published at: 2025-12-15 22:00:00
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