The Circle
Sci-fi thriller starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, based on the novel by McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). Two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) directs.
As she rises through the ranks of the world’s largest tech and social media company, The Circle, Mae (Watson) is encouraged by company founder Eamon Bailey (Hanks) to live her life with complete transparency. But no one is really safe when everyone is watching.
2017Rating: M, Offensive language109 minsUSA, United Arab Emirates
DramaScience FictionThriller
- Director:
- James Ponsoldt ('The End of the Tour', 'Smashed', 'The Spectacular Now')
- Writer:
- James Ponsoldt
- Cast:
- Tom HanksEmma WatsonKaren GillanBill PaxtonJohn BoyegaPatton OswaltEllar ColtraneNate CorddryElvy Yost
The Circle / Reviews
Chicago Reader
Director James Ponsoldt... barely develops any character besides Watson's, piling on narrative complications instead.
Full reviewVulture
If in ten years we look back on it and think, "Yep, they got it right," we'll really be screwed. We'll probably still think the movie isn't very good, though.
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Variety
"The Circle" is a swankly sinister little mind teaser of a thriller. It's a nightmare vision of what digital culture is turning all of us into, with all of our help.
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Time Out
Movies about the dangers of rampant interconnectivity are welcome in this day and age, but let's please make them a little more courageous.
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The New York Times
Lampooning the simple-mindedness of utopian web clichés was arguably part of Mr. Eggers's point, but much of that point is often muddled in the book. And it's simply incoherent in the movie.
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Hollywood Reporter
Certain plot points might seem far-fetched, but only until you think of similar things that have already happened, similar liberties that have been happily surrendered by users of popular networks.
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