The Circle (2017)

Directed by

James Ponsoldt

Genre

drama film, science fiction film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 4,603 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman starts a job at a powerful tech company that pushes for total transparency. As she gets drawn into the company's ambitious projects, she begins to question the true cost of their mission.

unsettlingthought-provokingtensesleekominousslow-burnclinicalparanoid

What happens

The Circle is a 2017 American techno-thriller film directed by James Ponsoldt with a screenplay by Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers, based on Eggers's 2013 novel. The film stars Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, as well as John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly and Bill Paxton. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2017, and was theatrically released on April 28, 2017, by STXfilms and EuropaCorp. It received generally negative reviews, and grossed $20.5 million in the United States and Canada and $20.1 million in other territories, for a total of $40.6 million, against a production budget of $18 million. It became director Ponsoldt's highest-grossing feature. The film's release was posthumous for Paxton, who died in February 2017, and it was the final film of Headly's released before her death in June 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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