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The Bling Ring cuts through the vapid foam to the vapid core to ask questions about morality, responsibility and where desolate idleness may lead.

Coppola’s desire for a new “soft” approach seems to have emasculated the original material while failing to engross our senses with her storytelling techniques.

The pace may be slow, but the feelings are racing.

With its genuine Versailles locations and sumptuous costuming, Marie Antoinette is a feast for the eyes.

We lack emotional investment in the underlying situation, possibly because Coppola is aiming to play almost everything for laughs.

Coppola paints pictures of mid-century Americana and the codes and moral shortcomings that go with it.

Lacking any sort of critical distance or self-reflection, it’s merely a wafer-thin portrait of an artist suffering from… something.

Coppola demonstrates remarkable confidence.