A chance for parents and carers to visit the cinema and see the films they want to see – in a friendly, safe, and relaxed atmosphere – without leaving the little one at home.

We know visiting the cinema with a little one can sometimes be a little tricky, so at these screenings we do all we can to make things a bit easier. This includes raised lighting during the film, slightly reduced volume levels, captions/subtitles where possible and the ability for people to move more freely around the auditorium. Seating is unreserved for these screenings to allow you to move around. We also limit the capacity at these screenings, meaning you’ll always be able to spread out over at least two seats, or more if it’s not full.

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Kelly Reichardt brings her unique sensibility to this breezy, 1970s-set art heist drama, a Cannes Competition contender starring Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro and Gaby Hoffman.

The Framingham Museum of Art, Massachusetts, is the site of a pleasant visit by the Mooney family. While wife Terri (Haim, Licorice Pizza) and the kids look at the works, J.B. (O’Connor, God’s Own Country, SFF 2017; Challengers) cases the joint. Finding some significant lapses in the diligence of the museum security, J.B. starts scheming. Identifying the works to nab is a simple matter, but this seemingly middle-class suburban dad has much greater difficulty in assembling a team to pull off the robbery. As he plots his criminal endeavour, anti-Vietnam War protests grow in intensity all around.

Reichardt is ever an astute and insightful chronicler of pockets of American life, going from the contemporary, as in Showing Up and Night Moves (SFF 2014), back to frontier times, as in Meek’s Cutoff (SFF 2011) and First Cow. Here, she details an era in which the very notion of America felt in flux; where rebellion was in the air, and the suburban dream was on the brink of collapse. The Mastermind is a timely, entertaining and vital addition to her brilliant body of work.