'Bling Ring' Review:' Emma Watson Praised By Critics for True Depiction of Hollywood Events [TRAILER]
Based in Los Angeles, the movie The Bling Ring does a remarkable job depicting true Hollywood events, according to critics.
"The breezy satire on society's obsession with celebrity culture, and the lengths some people will go to secure a fleeting moment in the limelight, will take you on a remarkably perturbing journey," according to Shockya.com in a June review.
The film, directed by Sofia Coppola, is inspired by actual events, and focuses on a group of teenagers infatuated by fame. They use the internet to track down celebrities in order to rob their houses. They burglarize homes of stars including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox and Rachel Bilson.
"Based on an article, The Suspects Wore Louboutins, that Nancy Jo Sales wrote for Vanity Fair in 2010, Coppola's film is both an incisive critique of Hollywood materialism and a cautionary fable about teen amorality and Facebook-era narcissism. Consequences from addiction, weak parenting, and broken homes reveal why these kids were living in cloud-cuckoo-land. The girls make Spring Breakers' minxes seem well adjusted," Vanity Fair reported in June.
Some critics pay a lot of attention to one of the film's main stars - Emma Watson.
"But the real story here isn't the good-girl-goes-bad stunt casting; it's that Watson can act. Against the odds, the Harry Potter star gives a sharp, knowing smart performance as Nicki, one of a gang of spoiled rich Californian brats robbing the houses of celebs who, like, totally deserve it," Time Out reported about the former Harry Potter star in its May review.
In addition, the publication praises the movie's director.
"This is easily Coppola's funniest film," according to Time Out of the director, who also made 1999's The Virgin Suicides and 2006's Marie Antoinette.
The film, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, opens in U.S. theaters on June 14. Other actors in the movie include Katie Chang, Israel Broussard and Claire Julien.
