The Bling Ring

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “For a while, the girls' personalities seem almost interchangeable, but that's part of the texture. Katie Chang gives the leader a ripe synthetic glow, and Emma Watson does a remarkable job of demonstrating that glassy-eyed insensitivity need not be stupid.”

  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 91

• “As with her best films, Coppola is utterly at ease in this milieu and it shows.”

  Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service · 88

• “In other words, this punkish, sleek film about beautiful kids wallowing in purloined Prada could have been written by a grumpy 65-year-old white guy in gabardine, provided he had a sense of irony. The Bling Ring is the bridge between Coppola and Bill O’Reilly.”

  Kyle Smith, New York Post · 88

• “The Bling Ring is a sly, often hilarious and at times sobering look at the 21st century fascination with celebrities.”

  Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times · 88

• “Uncharacteristically loose and deceptively frivolous, The Bling Ring is as much of an attack on The Hills Generation as any of Coppola’s previous films were an exercise in self-pity, which is to say not at all.”

  David Ehrlich, Film.com · 86