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40 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAs with her best films, Coppola is utterly at ease in this milieu and it shows.
- 80VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasThe Bling Ring traces an intriguing feedback loop of which it is knowingly a part: a movie that affords its subjects the very immortality they so aggressively sought.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinCoppola’s uproarious and bitingly timely film feels every inch a necessary artwork.
- 80The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyMay be the most exquisitely crafted movie ever made about a bunch of nitwits. [10 & 17 June 2013, p. 110]
- 75IndieWireEric KohnIndieWireEric KohnCoppola presents a smart cross-examination of the impact of media exposure on fickle young minds. While the ambitions of its young thieves often blur together and lack precise definition, The Bling Ring is the director's breeziest work, allowing the story to glide along with the ease of a heist movie.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinApart from scenes with Leslie Mann as a mother who propagates the wisdom of The Secret (she’d be too heavy-handed for a Disney Channel sitcom), The Bling Ring is enjoyable. And it’s always easy on the eyes.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyCoppola’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.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe final notes of irony and repudiation may be laboured and obvious, but this is an intriguingly intuitive and atmospheric movie.
- 50The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthIt's the picture's lack of focus that eventually diminishes whatever little The Bling Ring has to say.
- 50Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundSlant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundSofia Coppola seems curiously unmotivated to bring full analysis or provocation to her themes, leaving the film feeling like a disappointingly toothless satire.