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The Bling Ring (2013)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 170
Fresh: 101 | Rotten: 69

While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists' real-life crimes.

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 21

While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists' real-life crimes.

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In THE BLING RING, Oscar Winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola takes us inside the world of these teens, where their youthful naivete and excitement is amplified by today's culture of celebrity and luxury brand obsession. The members of the Bling Ring introduce us to temptations that any teenager would find hard to resist. And what starts out as youthful fun spins out of control, revealing a sobering view of our modern culture. (c) A24

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Sofia Coppola

Sep 17, 2013

$5.8M

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All Critics (171) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (101) | Rotten (69) | DVD (2)

The sense of detachment that is a signature of Sofia Coppola's work -- the coolly distant, stylishly dreamlike way she regards her characters -- works to her detriment in The Bling Ring.

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: ChristyLemire.com
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This is a funny, sarky, bang-on portrayal of the freakiness of celeb obsession. The story would sound outrageous - if it wasn't true.

July 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Emma Watson is comedic gold.

June 24, 2013 Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com
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All the characters are shallow and one-dimensional and, while one can argue that this is the point, it doesn't make for 90 minutes of engaging cinema.

June 24, 2013 Full Review Source: ReelViews
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Daring to face these often noxious, seemingly empty phenomena on aesthetic terms, and taking on a degree of their flatness and simplicity, Coppola renders them surprisingly substantial.

June 21, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
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Coppola neither makes a case for her characters nor places them inside of some kind of moral or critical framework; they simply pass through the frame, listing off name brands and staring at their phones.

June 21, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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Coppola's latest effort is the most superficial film I've seen since "Spring Breakers" earlier this year. There's so little here in the way of substance that it becomes quite an amazing feat that she was able to stretch it out into a 90-minute feature.

September 16, 2013 Full Review Source: Examiner.com
Examiner.com

Feather-weight satire of rich teen girls who steal from celebrities...The film is the cinematic equivalent of reading a health warning on the frosting of an over-priced cupcake.

August 20, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW

"While many loved Coppola's earliest pics, no one was happy with Marie Antoinette and many loathed Somewhere, and this based-on-fact latest again opts for a cheesy study of fame with characters who almost dare you to like them."

August 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Rip It Up

The Bling Ring suggests Coppola still has the nose for a good story, but not the depth to sufficiently explore it.

August 4, 2013 Full Review Source: The Sunday Age

Top marks to the cast who deliver these characters exactly as intended: shallow, stupid, reckless, irresponsible, self centred and extremely irritating. I wanted to smack them all as they snorted the stolen cocaine

August 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

The beauty of Sofia Coppola's intoxicating film that dabbles with celebrity obsession is that it entwines us so completely it its fake culture, that it makes us believe we are part of it

August 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

Coppola observes this giddy crime spree with her usual deadpan cool, finding satirical gold everywhere she looks. (Keep an eye out for Hilton's face on her own sofa cushions.)

August 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

A typically underwhelming effort from Sofia Coppola...

July 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

The pointless pic, lacking any sense of humanity, left me confused about what the director was trying to say about the social deviants featured.

July 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Once the initial thrill of riding shotgun to these robberies starts to fade, the audience has little to do but wallow in amorality, absent any fresh perspective from Coppola.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: The Dissolve
The Dissolve

The film is surface-shallow - but only because the culture it reflects is arguably too superficial to withstand any kind of analysis.

July 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Uncut Magazine [UK]
Uncut Magazine [UK]

90 minutes of derisive mockery and finger-pointing. We agree with the sentiment, sure. But what about it?

July 10, 2013 Full Review Source: About.com
About.com

A sly true-crime drama.

July 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

Director Sofia Coppola delivers a wily critique of celebrity culture in The Bling Ring as she dresses up the true story of Los Angeles teenagers robbing their Hollywood idols' homes.

July 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Independent

Coppola's dialogue is remorselessly authentic in its inanity, and this blankness runs deep in what finally feels a shallow film about shallow people.

July 7, 2013 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

Once again, Sofia Coppola confounds expectations with an astutely relevant approach to a true story. These events may be torn from the headlines, but they also echo the world around us.

July 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.com

Lighter and more accessible than the likes of Lost In Translation, Coppola's fifth feature is perceptive, funny and deceptively knowing.

July 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Flix Capacitor
Flix Capacitor

As a potential future video manual which could encourage some people to become high-end criminals, it left me uneasy.

July 5, 2013 Full Review Source: Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post

Soon reveals itself to be grimly repetitious, simply showing these kids stealing, then partying, taking pictures of themselves and putting them on Facebook, over and over again, until they are caught.

July 5, 2013 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

Audience Reviews for The Bling Ring

Coppola adopts an interesting neutral approach to this ironic and witty story of glamour and celebrity culture, never pointing fingers or trying to understand her characters but just taking a wry look at the empty lives of a bunch of shallow, selfish and spoiled teenagers.
October 5, 2013
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Living the Dream, One Heist at a Time.

Good movie! Sofia Coppola gets it, she gets this social media generation. In her latest film The Bling Ring, Coppola gives us a vibrant portrait of a society thats culture is so lost it's hard to decide who you hate more; wannabes or celebrities. I loved the way this film was shot. It's interesting, the way we view these characters is almost in the background, as if we the audience are in fact the surveillance camera we remain distant from the people on screen not understanding what drives them or even feeling the thrill of robberies. Emma Watson is fantastic. The way she portrays Nicki's vacant need to fulfill her meaningless desires was striking and the accent and voice inflections made the performance all the more impressive. Besides Emma, most of the other girls are forgettable which I enjoyed; at times you can confuse them with one another because they try so hard to be the same style of person.

Overall I really enjoyed the film. The entire thing feels like this giant master plan that will need multiple viewing to take in everything Coppola was trying to say. While not as surprising as I thought it was going to be the themes explored near the end of the film were worth the fabulously detailed ride we knew to expect from the trailer. The Bling Ring is a unique social commentary, which on the surface layer is bound to be compared to Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, both giving us their take on sociopathic young teens. Where the films differ thematically is the interesting part. You'll have to figure that one out on your own.

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
September 27, 2013
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    1. Nicki: You're stressing me out.
    – Submitted by Harry J (59 days ago)
    1. Nicki: Let's go to Paris'. I want to rob.
    – Submitted by Moe J (3 months ago)
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