PanThe Wall Street Journal\"This cinematic character also marks some drawbacks in The Collector. The text is so burdened with metaphors and clichés that the reader stops counting. More egregious, the authors, who note that Shchukin left almost nothing in the way of letters or diaries, speculatively attribute thoughts and emotions to him throughout ... The study of Sergei Shchukin predicted by Joseph Alsop is here in The Collector, and much more. Alas, often too much more.\