Stolen is an exceptionally gorgeous documentary, with polished visuals and pithy editing.

| Aug 9, 2017

An unusually thoughtful documentary about one of the modern era's most audacious art thefts.

| Mar 1, 2007

An entertaining, scattershot affair that promises more than it can deliver.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2006

Stolen is ultimately too lightweight and indecisive -- ironic, for a film ostensibly about people in thrall to an all-consuming passion.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2006

Even though there's no neat resolution, the entire ride is a pleasure.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2006

In telling the story of an unsolved crime, they use every trick available to awaken and prolong suspense before a payoff that never comes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Composer Peter Golub adds swooning suspense, while cinematographer Albert Maysles, who has documented many Christo projects, frames rendezvous with tipsters tempted by the $5 million reward.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 14, 2006

Captures a great yearning among many different people across time, all affected by Gardner and her legacy, especially those parts now missing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 30, 2006

A captivating documentary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2006

That it never quite reaches an 'Aha!' moment is the movie's chief flaw, as we have been set up to expect answers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 30, 2006

... a meandering survey of dead ends and colorful theories, interspersed with a dry history lesson that serves as little more than tasteful padding.

| Original Score: C | Jun 29, 2006

In the end, we're treated to an overture of possibilities rather than a satisfying film.

| Jun 22, 2006

A spooky new documentary that you'll see for its central mystery (who stole those paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 16 years ago?), but you'll stay for the ghost story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2006

Whatever the outcome of all this hugger-mugger, as yet unresolved, Stolen gives us hints about a special sort of muscle.

| May 8, 2006

What [Dreyfus] loses in modern day intrigue, she makes up for with history, art lessons and a detective straight out of Agatha Christie.

| Original Score: B | May 6, 2006

The meat of the film is [Dreyfus'] dauntless gumshoe, who plays his role to such eccentric perfection, he would have to have been invented had he not existed prior to that fateful March morning.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2006

In the end, the question remains: who the heck did the theft and where are the paintings now?

| Original Score: B | May 4, 2006

[The film] spearheaded a new investigation that turned up an astonishing array of fiction-ready characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Rebecca Dreyfus's middling documentary recounts the efforts to retrieve masterpieces stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 21, 2006

Since the case remains unsolved, the film lacks a true ending, but it finds some wonderful personalities along the way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2006