The Bling Ring Reviews
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
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
Movie Talk
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.)
The Dissolve
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Uncut Magazine [UK]
The film is surface-shallow - but only because the culture it reflects is arguably too superficial to withstand any kind of analysis.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Independent
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Contactmusic.com
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Flix Capacitor
Lighter and more accessible than the likes of Lost In Translation, Coppola's fifth feature is perceptive, funny and deceptively knowing.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Birmingham Post
As a potential future video manual which could encourage some people to become high-end criminals, it left me uneasy.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Irish Times
The picture feels like a modestly competent sketch of a subject that doesn't warrant this much attention.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Express
This may be a telling observation on today's lack of privacy but it doesn't make our teenage bandits very interesting or clever.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little White Lies
A film about teenagers, crime, celebrity, LA, the internet and the cinema. These still waters run very deep indeed.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ViewLondon
[An] engaging, superbly acted and impeccably production-designed drama, though the story is a little too fixated on the moral blankness of its characters and it completely lacks emotional depth.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
For a satire on America's modern day celebrity culture, The Bling Ring is hard to beat.
New England Movies Weekly
Watson's performance is the real revelation here... [It] makes you eager to see what she will do next.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Seven Days
Where Coppola fails is in filling the spaces between the soundbites.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Daily Star
When Coppola took a laid-back approach in her highly acclaimed Somewhere, I was bored to tears. But this time it's not only completely fitting but weirdly compelling.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticThis is a funny, sarky, bang-on portrayal of the freakiness of celeb obsession. The story would sound outrageous - if it wasn't true.
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| Original Score: 4/5
