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This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist (TV Miniseries)

This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist

2021

Colin Barnicle

Documentary

5.5

316

TV Series. Documentary 4 episodes. In 1990, two men dressed as cops stole millions of dollars worth of art from a Boston museum. The art is still missing, but the cold case has revealed one of the strangest, wide-reaching conspiracy to touch the art community — one that involves the Irish and Italian mobs, and stretches across Europe and Asia.

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"A fascinating portrait of an incident that lives on in the memory of a city that has both high culture and organized crime encoded in its DNA"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"We’re immediately drawn in by this bold heist and by the revelations from the early days (...) [It] presents some solid and credible theories (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Steve Greene IndieWire	"[It] didn’t have to necessarily be an intro-level course in art history, but the relative disinterest in the artistic context for this crime does point to this project having a certain sense of true-crime tunnel vision"	NEU
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"[It] takes a comprehensive a look at a case barely thawed in 30 years"	POS
United States	Ashlie D. Stevens Salon	"Netflix's uneven but informative 'This Is a Robbery' makes the world's biggest art heist feel stale. The limited series doesn't live up to its cast of characters"	NEU
United States	Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut	"The choice of four chapters was a solid decision. 'This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist' is a neat, tidy series that encapsulates an audacious crime (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Adam Chitwood Collider	"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."	POS
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"Despite the first episode’s draggy pace, the aftermath of the Gardner Museum robbery is what will keep us watching"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"The problem here is that not only is Colin Barnicle’s series formally stale but it never quite figures out what story to tell. It’s almost hyperactive in its focus (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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