No stars. No fat. Nothing to show us except the aftermath of a well-executed theft. It may add up to something that is less cinematic than it is literary, or podcastable. But a good story is a good story, and this is one.

Incredibly, this documentary feels like a real-world version of the best heist movies.

Some of it sounds very unlikely; some of it sounds downright impossible. But at a certain point, I kind of stopped caring. It’s too fascinating and precise to be disappointing, even if the truth is a bit smudged at the edges.

Stolen: Heist of the Century takes a measured approach to laying out its story.