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      • "The Circle," a technological thriller starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, didn't screen for critics, usually a sign of fatally damaged goods. But the movie, an adaptation of a 2013 Dave Eggers novel about a young woman coming to terms with privacy, ethics and humanity while working at a Facebook-like company, isn't half bad.
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  2. May 2, 2017 · The Circle — a thriller about a Google-like tech company with a sinister agenda, starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson — has gotten largely bad reviews from critics, including our own Tasha Robinson.

  3. Apr 28, 2017 · The problem is, “The Circle” never finds a good way to escalate its paranoia in anything other than a tedious, obvious way. And the meat-and-potatoes manner in which Ponsoldt has adapted and directed this material reveals the limits of his talent.

  4. Recommendation. If you care about privacy and the way its evolving, especially in the age of social media and computers, I highly recommend you watch The Circle (2017) movie.

    • The Movie Was Foreign Financed.
    • “The Circle” Is A Feathered Fish.
    • EuropaCorp and STX Entertainment Partnered on A Too-Familiar Movie.
    • Dave Eggers Is Box-Office Poison.
    • Expectations Were High For Writer-Director James Ponsoldt.

    “The Circle” was developed by A-list ex-DreamWorks producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald’s Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation, which raised financing from Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ and foreign sales company FilmNation on the power of Tom Hanks, who was the first star on board via his Playtone banner. In order to raise an $18-million budget, global...

    The movie is neither the sort of smart and edgy indie that A24 could market, nor a glossily entertaining commercial studio vehicle. It doesn’t appeal directly to younger Watson fans or older Hanks fans. “The Circle” therefore satisfies neither critics nor mainstream audiences. It’s what industry insiders like to call a ‘tweener.

    Luc Besson’s French distribution company EuropaCorp picked up “The Circle” for $8 million and partnered with STX for the North American release. They spent serious marketing dollars chasing after the hard-to-reach 17-to-35 demo, but the movie looked too familiar. Back in 1995, even “The Net” starring Sandra Bullock did a better job of painting a pa...

    As a novelist, Eggers has delivered such bestsellers as “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” “Zeitoun,” and “A Hologram for the King,” which also was turned into a movie starring Hanks that earned mild reviewsand poor box office ($7.7 million domestic). His brand of ironic, self-referential satire works better on the page, where the writer ...

    Having delivered well-reviewed indie features his first four times at bat — “Off the Black,” “Smashed,” “The Spectacular Now” and “The End of the Tour” — Ponsoldt was on a roll. Critics expected more from “The Circle,” and meted out harsh disapproval. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, for one, awarded the film one star out of four: “‘The Circle’ feel...

  5. May 2, 2017 · 1. Mae (Emma Watson) follows Ty (John Boyega) down a hall to a restricted area. The Circle is not getting good reviews, and I completely understand why. The execution of the film is flawed, the...

  6. Terrible ending to an already pretty bad movie. The entire movie builds up the idea of people gradually giving up their individual privacy via improved technology in return for the promise of a better, safer, and more social society.

  7. Sep 16, 2020 · The best thing about “The Circle,” the dystopian social media-on-steroids drama starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, is that you now can watch it as part of a double feature with Netflix’s new “The Social Dilemma,” and consider how much of the movie is coming horribly true.

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