This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: April 7, 2021 |
Summary:
The documentary series directed by Colin Barnicle looks into the still unsolved case where two men dressed up as Boston police stole 13 works of art worth more than $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Arts
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Positive:
10
Mixed:
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Negative:
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Apr 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This Is a Robbery is expertly structured to build and keep momentum, teasing major elements of the story before bringing them home later. Despite its cinematic luster (The Irishman producer Jane Rosenthal is among the producers), this is a tight, four-episode series, not a four-hour movie. The interviews in This Is a Robbery are an embarrassment of riches.
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Apr 6, 2021
Season 1 Review:
A dazzling mash-up of the usual elements that go into these increasingly popular docu-programs: archival news footage and crime scene photos; audio recordings from informants; grainy security cam footage; well-crafted graphics mapping out the timeline and the locales for various key events; interviews with a number of investigators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, eyewitnesses and journalists; and stylish re-creations of events from long ago. “This Is a Robbery” raises more questions than it answers, but those questions are deeply intriguing.
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Apr 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
What makes This Is a Robbery so compelling, and unique in contrast to the slew of other true crime docuseries available, is that everything about this crime is weird. The show does a terrific job of using experts to relay the strangeness of the heist – from what was (and wasn’t) stolen to the decision to keep the security guards alive.
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Apr 7, 2021
Season 1 Review:
One of the local reporters who’s been on the Gardner case beat since the beginning says that it’s been “30 years that these masterpieces have been missing. It needs a break.” “This is a Robbery” does a decent job at laying out what’s happened over those three decades — it also does a lot to prove that statement right.
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: April 7, 2021
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S1:E4. Episode 04
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S1:E3. Episode 03
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S1:E2. Episode 02
Air Date: April 7, 2021
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S1:E1. Episode 01
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