Spring Breakers (2012)

College students Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) are short of the cash they need for a spring-break trip, so they rob a diner and head down to Florida. However, the police soon break up the party and arrest them. The curvaceous quartet are unexpectedly bailed out by a drug dealer and aspiring rap artist named Alien (James Franco). Soon after, three of the four gal pals decide to join Alien in a life of crime.

The film stands, overall, as one of the director’s richer provocations …

New Yorker

Korine likes the poetics of transgression, and he trowels on the bad behavior with a heavy but mesmerizing hand.

Boston Globe