Parents' Guide to Stolen: Heist of the Century

Incredibly, this documentary feels like a real-world version of the best heist movies. With interviews with the lead detectives (Agim De Bruycker, Patrick Peys) and the lead suspect (Leonardo Notarbartolo), Stolen: Heist of the Century is a fascinating and thrilling journey. Viewers get the story, told chronologically, from both sides. Incredibly, sometimes the interviewer will even inform the detectives during an interview that Leonardo (in a separate interview) just said that something went down differently than what the detectives originally thought.

But this brings up another delicious and tantalizing element of the story: It's very clear that you can't really believe anything Leonardo says. Clearly, there's a lot of truth in what he says, but also, there's a lot of misdirection, half-lies, direct, bald-faced lies, bad remembering, and more. Viewers might even start feeling like Leonardo is trying to do his own version of Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects. He wears a sly smile for his resting face, like he knows something we don't. It's certainly no surprise that the majority of diamonds stolen were never recovered.