The Circle

Movie Review
Release on: Apr 28, 2017

Movie name	:	The Circle
Genres	:	Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Run time	:	110 min
Produced by	:	Anthony Bregman Gary Goetzman
Directed by	:	James Ponsoldt
Music by	:	Danny Elfman
Writers	:	James Ponsoldt, Dave Eggers
Cinematography	:	Matthew Libatique
Edited by	:	Lisa Lassek
Production	:	Image Nation Abu Dhabi Likely Story
Countries	:	United Arab Emirates, USA

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Stars : Emma Watson, Ellar Coltrane, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, Tom Hanks, Beck, Nate Corddry, Mamoudou Athie, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Joey Waronker, Michael Shuman, Nick Valensi, John Boyega, Regina Saldivar, Katie Costick, Julian von Nagel, Amie McCarthy Winn, Eve Gordon, Patton Oswalt, Smith Cho, Amir Talai, Poorna Jagannathan, Judy Reyes, Elvy Yost, Ellen Wong, Steven Klein, Hunter Burke, Drew Droege, Jason Sheridan, Andrew Hwang, Mele Ihara, Sandeep Parikh, Adam Aseem Tiwari, Jimmy Wong, Lizzie Prestel, Melanie Steinmann, Ken Narasaki, Lauren Baldwin, Nicola Bertram, Nick Peine, Daniel William Jordan, Alana Aimaq, Frederick Koehler, Michael Dean Russell Jr., Steven Adkins, Natalie Stephany Aguilar, Reverend John Atom, Kelli Barksdale, Shaylin Broady, Lori Crow, Paul Edney, Jennifer Fernandez, Jenine Giusto, Jedediah Jenk, Allyson Nicole Jones, Steve Joseph, Slim Khezri, Punnavith Koy, Abraham Lim, Shandel Love, Dez Mabunga, Jacob McAuliffe, Rob Morris, Troy Murray, Henry Nolin, James O'Connor, Claudia O'Doherty, Afsheen Olyaie, Samir Patel, Parker Russell, Patrick Russo, Jasper Salon, Derek Sulek, Alan Trujillo, Matt Van Beck, Brandon Van Vliet, Johny Walsh, Ara Woland

Story : When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity of a lifetime. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes, begin to affect the lives and future of her friends, family and that of humanity.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Privacy in the Internet Age will soon be a sub-genre of thrillers. And as necessary as this conversation is, we’ve witnessed it onscreen before.

From David Fincher’s morally ambiguous The Social Network to the recent Emma Roberts thriller, Nerve and from a slew of Facebook-themed horror movies (the if-you-unfriend-me-my-ghost-will-kill-you kind) to the HBO show Silicon Valley, we’re now familiar with the shady functioning of evil tech-billionaires and other disadvantages of going down the slippery slope of social networks.

The Circle simply parrots these threats. It revolves around Mae (Emma Watson), the newest employee of The Circle, a one-stop shop that has overtaken all other social networks. Its bosses, Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) and Tom Stenton (Patton Oswalt), have a unique vision for its future, and soon, Mae finds herself strapping on a camera and participating in their scheme to achieve “complete transparency.”

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The Circle

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