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"Though the casting of Emma Watson as the wonderfully wide-eyed, naïve and vacuous Bling Ringer Nicki and Leslie Mann as her former Playboy model and clueless mother Laurie is handy for sheer marketing value (and both are terrific in their roles)" - Screen Daily
"Speaking Valleyese with impeccable banality, the ensemble cast delivers comprehensive portraits of superficiality and moral cluelessness. It’s fun to see Watson departing so decisively from her smartypants Hermione identity" - Hollywood Reporter
"Always adept at directing young performers, Coppola encourages fine work here from her cast of mostly newcomers, with Watson taking special relish in shedding her goody-two-shoes “Harry Potter” persona" - Variety
"Emma Watson doesn’t play the ring leader in The Bling Ring but she’s the clear standout among the cast with the most to do." - Nigelmfs
"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" - Time Out
"Really impressed with @emwatson! Committed to the role and the American accent" - Sarah Rapp
"in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring the 23 year-old actress comes into her own and is brilliant as an LA brat who becomes part of a real-life gang that robbed the homes of the rich and famous in Hollywood. Being a bad girl suits Emma Watson. Emma’s Nicki is a total Hollywood girl. Not for a moment does the actress betray her Home Counties origins. At one point her eyes literally pop when she’s shown the Aladdin’s cave like sparking goodies on display in Hilton’s walk-in closets. Emma’s performance is so clever. At one point her character seeks to justify what she has done and explains how she has changed and what lessons she has learnt. It’s one of the best scenes I’ve seen in a movie all year and for me it marked the moment Emma Watson became a leading lady in her own right." - DailyMail
"Watson, even with her broadly generic American accent, fares best; she certainly milks her character, Nicki, for as many laughs as possible, and even nails quite a few." - IndieWire
"Playing gleefully against type, Emma Watson is a particular standout as Nicki, a toxic piece of work whose dull go-along attitude masks an astonishing capacity for self-promotion when crunch time comes. (“I’m a huge believer in karma,” she tells a Vanity Fair interviewer, without a flicker of irony.)" - HitFix
"Now comes the turn of Emma Watson, all grown up from Harry Potter’s pompous brain-box Hermione Granger and already with The Perks Of Being A Wallflower under her belt – which was good, but hardly too transformative – as she takes on a key role in Sofia Coppola’s Thief Girls Gone Wild tale The Bling Ring. She isn’t a main focus, but she’s very good, regardless of early problems with her accent, and she is probably the most exciting of all of the characters involved." - WhatCulture
"In a cast stocked mostly with unfamiliar names giving low-key performances, Watson’s supporting role is destined to be the most talked-about: Beyond the ‘good Harry Potter girl gone bad’ angle — we watch her pole dance, smoke heroin, and exhort her 13-year-old sister to crawl through Megan Fox’s doggy door — Watson is clearly having a blast with this character, and she bites down hard on her campy Valley Girl accent." - Vulture
"Watson is impressive – and nails the American accent" - UpAndComers
"Emma Watson, playing Nicki, a real mean girl, does a remarkable job of demonstrating that glassy-eyed insensitivity doesn’t have to be stupid. Wearing a brown shag that transforms her into a look-alike of the young Marilyn Chambers, Watson proves that her willingness to take chances is only growing, and that she’s an actress serious enough to turn a line like “Your butt looks awesome!” into something that reveals character." - Entertainment Weekly
"Watson’s spot-on L.A. girl accent and mannerisms capture the inanity of their materialist world" - UInterview
"After seeing THE BLING RING, i can say Watson shows a range that none of has seen before" - CannesCoverage
"The performances plumb various depths, but most find the right level. Only Watson comes off as a bit of a fish out of water, simply too nice and compassionate to be believable as a shallow idiot. Nonetheless, she allows herself to be alternately sexy and sociopathic in her portrayal of one of the girls who inadvertently found more fame than she desired after she was arrested." - The Wrap
"Watson gives a spiky, witty performance as Nicki, the leader of a gang of bored California teenagers
The Bling Ring is like a posh version of Spring Breakers with Watson showing a wry comic touch as a girl who is more than ready for her close-up." - Express
"Emma Watson is a stand-out: she delivers her character’s blasé whines of entitlement like a musician coaxing a keening lament from an oboe, and her drained interactions with her dopey mother, played by Leslie Mann, are a joy." - Telegraph
"Even Emma Watson gave a performance that felt empty, cliched and totally grating. Then again, she may have just been playing those kind of celebrity-obsessed teens perfectly. I couldn’t even stand Emma Watson for more than 15 minutes." - Orbit
"the phalanx of actresses lend a ditzy vitality to their roles — though Harry Potter fans may send a plea to Watson: Go back to Hogwarts" - Time
"There’s no question that The Bling Ring is imminently watchable. It’s not just all the pretty people doing bad things that helps—it’s the pleasure in watching Watson shed her Harry Potter phase convincingly as the deeply calculating Nicki. If last year’s Perks of Being a Wallflower offered her a platform to play a sexy, tart teen, The Bling Ring goes one better, letting her carry the film on the strength of her character’s audacious vapidity. Her costars may overdo the shallowness, but Watson’s casual callousness is frightening and alluring, bringing a kick to the otherwise monotone proceedings." - Paste Magazine
"And at times, Coppola seems to be trying to get at the reasons these kids are so desperate to wrap themselves in all these glittery trappings. But their shallowness becomes a -note gag, and not even the gifted Emma Watson, who plays one of the wiliest Bling Ringers, can rise above it." - Village Voice
"the sharpest, funniest and most savagely perceptive scenes are those featuring Emma Watson (excellent – and a world away from Hermione and Hogwarts) and Taissa Farmiga as adopted siblings Nicki and Sam, and Leslie Mann as their dippy New Age mother." Source: UK Times via Pottershots
"Watson plays grown up and fucked up and does a decent job of it, but she, like the rest of the cast, lack the gravitas or soulfulness of Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation or Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides." - Total Film
"It’s nice to see the trio of kid stars from Harry Potter succeeding as young adults, Now it’s Emma Watson’s turn– Hermione, that is. She’s listed as part of the ensemble in Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring,” which premiered here in Cannes on Thursday morning. And while all the cast members are quite good, Watson just pops out. She’s a star in the making, that’s for sure. Watson plays Nicole who is not the ring leader of the group. That would be excellent newcomer Katie Chang as Rebecca. She’s a real find. Watson, however, is just a member of the group. But she plays the part as if she were Nicole Kidman’s daughter from “To Die For” with the same kind of unabashed venal enthusiasm for celebrity without substance." - Showbiz 411
"Watson’s Nicki comes close as the most boisterous of the bunch. The actress is hysterical in her attempts to soak up every bit of spotlight — even when they’re coming from paparazzi parked outside the courtroom." - Hollywood
"Emma Watson is not one of the problems. She is something of a revelation, despite the slight problems with her accent early on, and she quickly becomes the most interesting character thanks to the openly comical way she is presented by the end. Plus, she is absolutely gorgeous, and suits the air-headed dolly girl model of the character, while retaining some venom behind those pretty eyes. She will come out of it well, and indeed others in the young cast will find themselves being shooed through a lot more open doors, but that doesn’t mean the film was a success, by any means." - What Culture
"Much creepy attention has been lavished on photos doing the rounds of Emma Watson pole dancing (Hermione’s legal!) in The Bling Ring. 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. Directed by Sofia Coppola, this is a funny, sarky, bang-on portrayal of the freakiness of celeb obsession." - DigitalSpy
"The film, directed by Sofia Coppola, has already won critical acclaim from just about everybody including Emma’s role in it." - Mr Paparazzi
(leading the attractive cast are a very fine Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, and Emma Watson of “Harry Potter” fame, right, doing a delicious take on Valley Girl cadences). - France 24
(Emma Watson, who capably sheds her fragile “Harry Potter” with a substantially less likable persona) - IndieWire
Coppola cast mainly newcomers in the lead roles (Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Julien), with the notable exception of “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson, who assumes a thick Valley Girl accent for her character. Watson praised Coppola for her easy calm - Yahoo
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