This thriller, if that’s what it’s supposed to be, never comes close to reaching a boiling point, neither dramatically nor in terms of suspense.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 22, 2023

Unvarying in tone and style, it's a rough slog.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 22, 2010

This gravely serious drama is as insular as a tomb with Muzak.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2010

Hamm's and Lucas' performances are fine, but first-time director Anders Anderson is heavy-handed and overwrought, portraying emotional turmoil with clichs.

| Mar 26, 2010

A leaden murder mystery with a clunky structure that swings back and forth between 1958 and 2008, Stolen wastes the talents of a reasonably good cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 18, 2010

One poorly told story would be bad enough but with "Stolen" we have two.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 17, 2010

Not a masterpiece, perhaps, but technically polished, with inspired performances and enough suspense that by the time Mr. Hamm found the redemption that freed him from his own demons, I was so wired I needed a Valium.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2010

No one is able to make much of the disposable script, but Hamm is so limited by the period trappings that it seems as if he simply wandered onto the wrong set.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2010

Plays like a middling episode of Law & Order: SVU, drawn out an extra half-hour and embellished with pretentious literary and cinematic flourishes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2010

Though generally ham-fisted, Stolen may appeal to Hamm's more die-hard fans.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 12, 2010

Every bit the unpleasant slog one might expect, glum and murkily shot, wallowing in pedantic histrionics and badly lacking the breathing room it desperately needs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 11, 2010

The low-boil mystery-thriller Stolen was once known as The Boy In The Box and then Stolen Lives, but now has a title as nondescript as its contents.

| Original Score: C | Mar 11, 2010

Hamm himself is too smart a performer for movies like these, but let's write it off as a canny career move to take a vacation from Don Draper and his glumness.

| Mar 10, 2010

[A] graceless piece of tragedy porn...

| Original Score: D- | Mar 10, 2010

Anders Anderson's thriller struggles to intertwine the two mysteries and ends up doing justice to neither.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2010

Not pretentious in its implications, 'Stolen' nevertheless depends excessively on coincidence, on unlikely connections and not clearly differentiated characters.

| Mar 10, 2010

Stolen reveals a filmmaking hand in need of a considerable amount of seasoning.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 9, 2010

In the lead-up to the inevitable connection, Anderson builds suspense around innumerable close-ups of telephone touchpads, liquids being spilled, [and] Lucas straining to be a credible hayseed.

| Mar 9, 2010

A technically polished thriller marred by textbook filmmaking that grows increasingly dull as the plot wears on.

| Mar 9, 2010

Two missing children stories are combined to less than compelling effect in this sluggish thriller.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2010