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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Pajiba (523) on 27 Apr 2017

The Circle is a movie that is emotionally dead, intellectually vapid, and otherwise just dull…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for ABC Tucson (117) on 27 Apr 2017

It's all a little much on the alarmist front, but director James Ponsoldt's warning message rings true despite his film's tendency to hyperbole…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Apr 2017

Ponsoldt’s film is caught between comedy and paranoid thriller. I fear he half-asses the latter…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 27 Apr 2017

The Circle aims for slow-building dread, but Ponsoldt’s direction and the script are both so uncharacteristically stiff that the film’s…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 27 Apr 2017

The dialogue is as subtle as a placard, the drama manages to be both cooked-up and dull, and the movie’s fear of brainwashed, tech-addicted…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for We Live Entertainment (357) on 26 Apr 2017

Drama can warn us in the hopes that some people learn to foresee tragedy and make better decisions…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 26 Apr 2017

It's a modern-day fable with a moral that's arrived at by way of a monologue and a smile…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 26 Apr 2017

In the last forty minutes it becomes clear that the people behind it have not thought very deeply about those questions, much less the answers…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 Apr 2017

Like an extended episode of Black Mirror but without a dark sense of humor or bleak horror, The Circle wails about how technology is affecting…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 26 Apr 2017

The story condescends to Mae, and, by extension, to smart, ambitious millennials everywhere — I’m not a millennial, but I felt offended…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 26 Apr 2017

Ponsoldt—who also directed The Spectacular Now and The End of the Tour—has a great feel for intimate conversation, but he’s all thumbs…

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By Lauren Humphries-Brooks (64) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 26 Apr 2017

A half-baked thriller with a strong cast and a few good ideas, The Circle lacks originality, immediacy, or basic coherence…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 26 Apr 2017

Essentially a so-so episode of Black Mirror…

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By David D'arcy (130) for Screen International (2,241) on 26 Apr 2017

We’re lucky that moralists like Ponsoldt and Eggers have a sense of humor…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 26 Apr 2017

Director James Ponsoldt — who did the very good The Spectacular Now and Smashed — is great at visuals, peppering the screen with glowing…

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By Greg Wakeman (87) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 26 Apr 2017

Smug, condescending, and completely without incident, The Circle is the reason why people hate Hollywood…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 26 Apr 2017

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…

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By Julian Roman (454) for MovieWeb (460) on 26 Apr 2017

Emma Watson and Tom Hanks fall flat in The Circle, a dull and bloated exercise in technology's overreach…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Apr 2017

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…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Apr 2017

You could call The Circle a dystopian thriller, yet it’s not the usual boilerplate sci-fi about grimly abstract oppressors lording it over…

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