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Apr 27, 2017 · The Times critic Glenn Kenny reviews “The Circle.” “The Circle” is based on the Dave Eggers novel of the same name about a woman whose new job at a Google-like company consumes her life.
- James Ponsoldt
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Oct 3, 2013 · “The Circle,” the new novel by Dave Eggers, describes a woman at the center of a Google-like social media company with a deep reach into its users’ lives.
- Michiko Kakutani
2 days ago · Directed by Hannah Peterson. In this delicate drama set in Utah, three individuals deal with survivor’s guilt a year after a school shooting takes the life of a loved one. By Beatrice...
Directed by James Ponsoldt and based off Dave Eggers’s 2013 novel, the film takes place at a social-media/search-engine/payment tech company that could be *gasp!* going too far. It may be the ...
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Real-life tech references in the movie aren't meant as veiled accusations. Hanks' Eamon Bailey, for example, is the company's "public-facing visionary." Earlier this week, Hanks joked with Twitter CEO Jack Dorseyabout playing a diabolical tech genius with a beard. "I played you! I'm not in as good of shape, I didn't exercise or eat as well, but I p...
Other actors in the film drew from specific points of reference. Actress Karen Gillan used reports about Amazon to better understand her character, Annie. A longtime friend of Mae, Annie is part of the Circle's executive elite, delivering inhuman productivity. To get inside Annie's head, Gillan relied on a New York Times 2015 expose about Amazon, s...
To our society's credit, when abuse by tech giants comes to light, we generally respond with outrage rather than the indifference of "The Circle." But at the premiere during an audience Q&A, Hanks related his own lesson from the film, while satirizing how we can mock the behavior of movie characters only to live out the same actions ourselves. "Whe...
Apr 28, 2017 · The Circle. Drama. ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2017. Matt Zoller Seitz. April 28, 2017. 6 min read. The highlight of “The Circle” is producer-costar Tom Hanks ‘ performance as the CEO of the titular company, a Google- or Apple-styled high-tech octopus that’s spreading its tentacles into every nook of our lives.
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The Circle is available to watch on Netflix. Emma Watson gets her dream job at Tom Hanks's tech firm, only to discover it's not as benevolent as its image suggests.
