The Bling Ring Reviews

The most curious thing about this movie is that as the cautionary tale it so clearly wants to be, it fails.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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

A stick-thin expose of a gaggle of brats obsessed with snatching Prada purses and Alexander McQueen shoes from celebs' high-up-in-the-hills chateaus.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

The young cast impress greatly at times and their delivery of some of the more amusing lines with a pout and a "like totally" help make The Bling Ring something of an enjoyable experience, despite it's flimsiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

With so many vicarious celebrations of wealth masquerading as critiques as it is, I think you owe the audience at least the wisp of a point of view, and there's none here. There is no here here.

Full Review | Original Score: D

The scariest thing in theaters this summer is definitely over priviledged high school kids; unfortunately their film is only as enthralling as a day in Paris Hilton's life. Glamorous, but there's just not much going on beneath the surface.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.75/5

"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

Coppola's latest never seems to know what it wants to be - it works best when it is a blackly comical parody but it too often pulls its punches and is never quite brave enough to be bold.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Sofia Coppola seems curiously unmotivated to bring full analysis or provocation to her themes, leaving the film feeling like a disappointingly toothless satire.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The problem with The Bling Ring is that it is very nearly as vapid as the people that it depicts.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

If it was Sofia Coppola's intention to portray Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Audrina Patridge as the unfortunate, sympathetic victims of teens run rampant in The Bling Ring, then, great work?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Want to watch some rather dull characters oohing over clothes? This is your jam.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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

There's no real point to the movie, unless it's to say that stealing from B-list celebrities will make you equally as famous, in which case, isn't it just contributing to the problem?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

She neither explains nor excuses nor extols nor excoriates these kids, which would be fine, but she doesn't really examine them either.

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Is this anthropology, or simply entropy? It's partly the former and lots of the latter, with precious little insight.

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It's an intriguing notion, but one wishes Coppola wouldn't pound on this single point for her movie's entire running time.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.9/10

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