The Jewel Thief

2023

1h 40m

Documentary

Crime

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86%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

60%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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The firsthand account of Gerald Blanchard, one of the most creative, calculating and accomplished criminal masterminds in modern history.

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Laurie K

Boring. This is a middle school video project that lacked a frame of reference, seeking only to flatter the main character who owned the video equipment. Shallow

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/16/23

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Janelle N

Boring. It also seemed that some of the players were only allowed to participate if they agreed to continue saying he was so brilliant, call him a mastermind, stroke his ego, etc. After awhile I couldn't take it anymore. Didn't even make it halfway through.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/15/23

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X O

This is so awesome! So worth watching. Twice! So impressive. Good on him! :)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/27/23

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Lisa K

Wow I would love to be Gerald's James Bond side girl :) amazing story

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/07/23

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Eddy H

An entertaining documentary that has the fun-loving twist and turns from "Catch Me If You Can", only in Real Life.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/24/23

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Christine L

Way to turn what could be an exciting nail-biting, twist-and-turn tale into a boring wake-me-up-when-it's-over film. The main character and subject has all the charm of a doornail but still the story telling and re-enactments could have been helped. I struggled to get through it and found myself not caring how the story ends. A total disappointment.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/14/23

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Landon Van Soest

Director

Rick Brookwell

Executive Producer

Ben Schwartz

Executive Producer

Josh Braun

Producer

Ben Braun

Producer

Dan Braun

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

It’s fascinating to hear the details of how prolific Blanchard was before the law caught up with him.

Jul 17, 2023

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

One of the more charming aspects of “The Jewel Thief” is how little animosity is shown him by members of law enforcement, whom he frequently humiliated but who can’t help but harbor respect for someone so good at what he did.

Jul 13, 2023

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

Who would have thought one of the most notorious jewel thieves in the world hails from Winnipeg? The Jewel Thief What’s most interesting is that Blanchard has intelligence and mad skills, but lacks personality. There may be no there there.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 1, 2023

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Farah Cheded

A Good Movie To Watch

[Blanchard] has a tendency to embellish his stories... Ultimately, though, having such an unreliable subject isn’t a handicap — it’s a blessing, giving the documentary a winkingly ludicrous edge that helps it stand out in an overstuffed genre.

Rated: 68/100

Jul 28, 2023

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Manuel Betancourt

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

The documentary has a hard time striking a tone, because he does dominate. It's hard not to be bowled over but also getting at how much [the subject] is dominating.

Jul 22, 2023

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Selina Lee

In Review Online

Audiences hankering for a new James Bond film can tide themselves over with Landon Van Soest’s The Jewel Thief, an engaging true crime documentary and character study of the criminal prodigy Gerald Daniel Blanchard.

Jul 15, 2023

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Synopsis

The firsthand account of Gerald Blanchard, one of the most creative, calculating and accomplished criminal masterminds in modern history.

Director: Landon Van Soest
Producer: Rick Brookwell, Ben Schwartz
Distributor: Hulu
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 13, 2023
Runtime: 1h 40m

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