OK, But We Need a Movie Version of ‘Stolen: Heist of the Century,’ Stat

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Stolen: Heist of the Century tells a simple story in a familiar format: the intrepid investigators set out to solve a crime. In this case, though, the crime is the largest diamond heist in history, and the investigators are members of the Federal Police’s Diamond Squad, closing in on the robbers’ trail by the hour.

It’s Antwerp, 2003. At the heart of the diamond district, a vault door stands open. Hundreds of millions in gems are gone. It’s a mystery as to how it was done—until one of the robbers (and, just maybe, the mastermind of the whole heist) sits down to narrate the process for this Netflix documentary.

In painstaking (and rather self-satisfied) detail, Leonardo Notarbartolo ta

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