Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Lured by stardom, a crew of aimless teens breaks into celebrity homes for a string of high-profile robberies and fame by appropriation.
Sofia Coppola's stylistic fingerprints elevate what is otherwise a thin, deliberately surface-level narrative. The cinematography is genuinely exceptional — the long-take burglary of Paris Hilton's home shot from a hillside distance is iconic and speaks to Coppola's assured visual intelligence. The cast, led by Emma Watson, acquits itself well given the intentionally vacuous characters. However, the plot is purposefully shallow, mirroring its subjects' emptiness, which works thematically but makes for a frustrating dramatic experience. The ending arrives abruptly and without meaningful consequence or resonance, feeling anticlimactic. Novelty sits in the middle — it's distinctly a Coppola film in tone and aesthetic, but the celebrity-obsession satire doesn't break new ground conceptually.