Storyline
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
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Cast
Patton Oswalt, Tom Hanks, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Ellen Wong, Nate Corddry, Amie McCarthy Winn, Emma Watson, Eve Gordon, Bill Paxton, Amir Talai, Poorna Jagannathan, Fred Koehler, Ellar Coltrane, Glenne Headly, Paul Edney, John Boyega, Smith Cho, Hunter Burke, Jimmy Wong, Elvy Yost, Karen Gillan, Claudia O'Doherty, Kelli Barksdale, Punnavith Koy, Drew Droege, Shaylin Janelle Broady, Brandon Van Vliet, Natalie Stephany Aguilar, Alan Trujillo, Slim Khezri, Afsheen Olyaie, Nick Peine, Beck, Patrick Russo, Abraham Lim, Mamoudou Athie, Judy Reyes, Joey Waronker, Nick Valensi, Michael Shuman, Katie Costick, Regina Saldivar, Steven Klein, Lauren Baldwin, Nicola Bertram, Julian von Nagel, Michael Dean Russell Jr, Jason Sheridan, Sandeep Parikh, Mele Ihara, Andrew Hwang, Lizzie Prestel, Alana Aimaq, Daniel William Jordan, Melanie Steinmann, Ken Narasaki, Jedediah Jenk, Ara Woland, Derek Sulek, Jasper Salon, Parker Russell, Samir Patel, James O'Connor, Henry Nolin, Rob Morris, Dez Mabunga, Shandel Love, Stephen Michael Joseph, Allyson Nicole Jones, Jenine Giusto, Lori Crow, Reverend John Atom, Steven Adkins, Matt Van Beck, Jennifer Fernandez, Troy Murray, Johny Walsh, Adam Aseem Tiwari
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Reviews
75
The Circle is very much a plea for the preservation and sanctification of privacy, but it’s nicely constructed in that no one character expresses the film’s distinct point of view.
70
One of the things The Circle gets right on multiple occasions is that, once one has bought into a technology like this, the problems it creates are invitations not to abandon it but to seek further technological solutions.
70
You could call The Circle a dystopian thriller, yet it’s not the usual boilerplate sci-fi about grimly abstract oppressors lording it over everyone else. The movie is smarter and creepier than that.
70
We’re lucky that moralists like Ponsoldt and Eggers have a sense of humor.
50
The premise begs to provoke contentious debate around privacy laws in an age of boundless innovation, but it can’t seem to find steady footing in that dialogue, in part because it lacks a substantial means of asking the right questions.
