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34 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 3 out of 12
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    James Van Der Beek plays the same suspect over a 50-year period, sporting some of the worst old-age makeup in memory in the present-day sequences.
  2. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    50
    This gravely serious drama is as insular as a tomb with Muzak. It takes a particularly heavy hand to make us numb to the abduction of two children, but that's the effect of the wall-to-wall music and earnestly dour performances.
  3. New York Observer
    Reviewed by: Rex Reed
    50
    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.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    50
    Stolen is mildly engaging, inasmuch as it poses a riddle and makes the audience wait for the answer, in the classic mystery mode.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    40
    Hamm is unable to do much with his underwritten role, and the present-day sequences don't really hold interest.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    40
    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.
  7. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Kevin B. Lee
    40
    Stolen's major flaws result from writer Glenn Taranto's screenplay, which keeps piling on plot twists at the expense of anything resembling character development.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    Plays like a middling episode of "Law & Order: SVU," drawn out an extra half-hour and embellished with pretentious literary and cinematic flourishes.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jordan Mintzer
    40
    A technically polished thriller marred by textbook filmmaking that grows increasingly dull as the plot wears on.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    30
    It's uncertain whether or not Taranto and debuting helmer Anders Anderson looked at the "Law & Order: SVU" and "Cold Case" episodes that also used the crime as a plot thread; the sub-televisual incompetence of their film suggests not.
  11. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    30
    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.
  12. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    16
    It's a toss-up as to what's the worse sin in this graceless piece of tragedy porn.
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5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. TOmac
    10
    I actually enjoyed this movie. I was empathetic to the lead characters, all of whom I felt gave respectable performances. I liked the concept of the parallel stories of the two missing boys and thought the unravelling of the clues which leads Hamm to solving the case of his missing son was paced in such a way as to keep the viewer's interest in the story. A decent movie worthy of renting for some entertainment.… Full Review »
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