The Bling Ring Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

"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."

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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

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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

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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.)

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A typically underwhelming effort from Sofia Coppola...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: C+

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

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

Full Review | Original Score: C

A sly true-crime drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5