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The Bling Ring

2013

Sofia Coppola

Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Emma Watson, Leslie Mann ...

4.9

8,371

Drama. Comedy In the fame-obsessed world of Los Angeles, a group of teenagers take us on a thrilling and disturbing crime-spree in the Hollywood hills. Based on true events, the group, who were fixated on the glamorous life, tracked their celebrity targets online, and stole more than 3 million in luxury goods from their homes. Their victims included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Rachel Bilson, and the gang became known in the media as "The Bling Ring." [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"Always adept at directing young performers, Coppola encourages fine work here from her cast of mostly newcomers"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Coppola's attitude toward her subject seems equivocal, uncertain; there is perhaps a smidgen of social commentary, but she seems far too at home in the world she depicts to offer a rewarding critique of it"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The final notes of irony and repudiation may be laboured and obvious, but this is an intriguingly intuitive and atmospheric movie (...) rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Emma Watson is sensational as Nicki (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'The Bling Ring' occupies a vertiginous middle ground between banality and transcendence, and its refusal to commit to one or the other is both a mark of integrity and a source of frustration"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Everything comes together for the good here: visuals, performances, raucous soundtrack, Coppola's teasing flirtation with (...) some kind of concrete morality (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Watching 'The Bling Ring', the audience is invited to understand the impulses of these child-woman thieves, even as Coppola stands firmly apart from their craziness and sees them for who they are"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Adams Screendaily	"The film ... is rather one-tone - they break into houses, wear clothes, go to clubs, do drugs and get caught - and lacks any real sense of drama"	NEG

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