Stolen Reviews
Movie Metropolis
Unvarying in tone and style, it's a rough slog.
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| Original Score: 3/10
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This gravely serious drama is as insular as a tomb with Muzak.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Moving Pictures Magazine
Hamm's and Lucas' performances are fine, but first-time director Anders Anderson is heavy-handed and overwrought, portraying emotional turmoil with clichés.
Top CriticA 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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
ColeSmithey.com
One poorly told story would be bad enough but with "Stolen" we have two.
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| Original Score: C-
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Plays like a middling episode of Law & Order: SVU, drawn out an extra half-hour and embellished with pretentious literary and cinematic flourishes.
| Original Score: 2/5
Though generally ham-fisted, Stolen may appeal to Hamm's more die-hard fans.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film School Rejects
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
AV Club
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.
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| Original Score: C
New York Press
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.
Anders Anderson's thriller struggles to intertwine the two mysteries and ends up doing justice to neither.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Not pretentious in its implications, 'Stolen' nevertheless depends excessively on coincidence, on unlikely connections and not clearly differentiated characters.
Slant Magazine
Stolen reveals a filmmaking hand in need of a considerable amount of seasoning.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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.
A technically polished thriller marred by textbook filmmaking that grows increasingly dull as the plot wears on.
Two missing children stories are combined to less than compelling effect in this sluggish thriller.
Hollywood & Fine
None of the actors make much of an impression in Stolen. But then, neither does the film itself.
