Stolen Reviews
This gravely serious drama is as insular as a tomb with Muzak.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 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
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
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
[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
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