A detective story of a doco. It isn't a new approach, let alone a unique or unusual one, but it savvily relies upon the combined force of a ripping yarn and rollicking storytelling.

| Jul 8, 2022

Does what the best documentaries do: opens a door to an insular world and extends its scope to become something else entirely, showing how this small world can create ripples that expand throughout the larger world.

| Original Score: 9/10 | May 10, 2022

Even for audiences who do not care about the art industry or do not normally seek out documentaries, this is juicy and shocking enough to be a rewarding and engaging viewing experience.

| Feb 22, 2022

The jury is still out as to whether it is the ultimate status symbol or the most expensive dud ever sold to a rich, naive collector.

| Jan 7, 2022

There have been several recent films about the pressures dictating prices on the international art market, but none have been as instructive -- or as enthralling -- as The Lost Leonardo.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2021

Properly captures the sense of dread, corruption, and duplicity that lurks at the heart of the art world.

| Oct 27, 2021

What happened in the 12 years between 2005 and 2019, when the Paris Louvre planned it as part of a special exhibition, is as intriguing as a potboiler fiction

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 22, 2021

A lot of talking heads are involved, all willing to discuss their points of view and the roles they played along the way; it's all quite interesting and educational. Highly recommended.

| Oct 1, 2021

Koefoed isn't scared to treat his interviews as hostile witnesses on occasion, so that the film always seems to be on the side of the artwork rather than any individual.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 21, 2021

[The filmmakers] present this information with the pace of a good heist thriller, where what's being stolen is reputation, credibility and a piece of history.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 21, 2021

Koefoed structures the film like a twisty thriller, full of unexpected turns and larger-than-life characters. Watching it, it's impossible not to cast the Hollywood version of this story in your mind.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 17, 2021

[A] fascinating documentary...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 17, 2021

A fascinating documentary that takes a look at the art world, the obscenely rich, and manufactured importance.

| Sep 14, 2021

The revelations come thick and fast and no-one emerges smelling of roses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2021

The film's interviewees form a lively exhibition of portraits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2021

Tracing the painting's journey over those years becomes a riveting affair ...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 11, 2021

It does tend to reek of elitism, but you can admire it from afar like a painting at a museum.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2021

It is a truly fascinating and cynical display of political power by proxy, but at this stage no one is surely under any illusions that it was ever about the art.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2021

Gradually morphs into the documentary equivalent of a Christopher Nolan movie...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2021

Perhaps Da Vinci should have painted Christ throwing the art dealers out of the temple.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2021