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Evening Standard
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Nick Howells

The Mastermind review: art thief Josh O’Connor shimmers like an old master

There are two young actors from this side of the Atlantic whose cinematic golden hour has been ticking gloriously for some time now.

One is Paul Mescal, who had the London Film Festival crowd in tears in the upcoming Hamnet. The other, even hotter-than-climate-meltdown male star is Josh O’Connor. Smouldering in Challengers; ditto (without the former’s cheap titillation) in La Chimera and easily the best thing in Wake Up Dead Man, the new Knives Out mystery.

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