The Bling Ring
Inspired by actual events, a teenager and his gang of fame-obsessed youths use the Internet to track the whereabouts of celebrities, in order to rob their homes. Their victims included Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, and Rachel Bilson.
18 February 1992, Colorado, USA
30 October 1965, Kilburn, London, England, UK
17 February 1981, New York City, New York, USA
15 September 1986, Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
28 September 1942, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
9 May 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 November 1974, Houston, Texas, USA
22 August 1994, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA
17 June 1955, Inglewood, California, USA
3 December 1952
6 September 1969, Tucson, Arizona, USA
4 March 1965, Glasgow, Montana, USA
29 May 1993, Santa Barbara, California, USA
27 March 1977, New York City, New York, USA
14 August 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
1960, USA
23 January 1996, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
26 March 1972, San Francisco, California, USA
May 10, 2016
The Bling Ring is a comedy, a gentle (if thin) satire of fame-obsessed youths, and a canny probe into the ecosystem of LA's celeb culture and the weird influence it exerts on the rest of the population.
August 08, 2013
The sense of detachment that is a signature of Sofia Coppola's work -- the coolly distant, stylishly dreamlike way she regards her characters -- works to her detriment in The Bling Ring.
June 21, 2013
Daring to face these often noxious, seemingly empty phenomena on aesthetic terms, and taking on a degree of their flatness and simplicity, Coppola renders them surprisingly substantial.
April 09, 2016
At best, the picture can be written off as some kind of failed experiment, a competition to see which cast member is the most in tune with his or her inner dolt.
July 14, 2016
In the United States of Narcissism, you're nothing if you can't see yourself on a screen.
January 03, 2014
It's smart and droll.
July 02, 2013
This is a funny, sarky, bang-on portrayal of the freakiness of celeb obsession. The story would sound outrageous - if it wasn't true.
June 21, 2016
Coppola gives the events a bubbly potency, drawn to the attractive, greedy foolishness of the characters. They are, when it comes down to it, horrible, vapid people, yet the film doesn't view them purely as monsters, or as a sociological construct.
April 28, 2015
Antonioni watches too much TMZ in Sofia Coppola's detached portrait of hollowed-out youth culture.
June 24, 2013
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.
July 20, 2015
...Coppola definitely finds a captivating way of telling the tale. Her script and the performances give us something thought-provoking out of something superficial.
June 24, 2013
Emma Watson is comedic gold.
