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Apr 28, 2017 · The Circle. The highlight of "The Circle" is producer-costar Tom Hanks ' performance as the CEO of the titular company, a Google- or Apple-styled high-tech octopus that's spreading its tentacles into every nook of our lives. The brilliance of Hanks' performance as Eamon Bailey, founder of The Circle, is that it's not remarkably different from ...
A digitally driven thriller starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks and John Boyega. Critics are divided on the film's exploration of timely themes, such as privacy, ethics and personal freedom.
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Apr 27, 2017 · The Times critic Glenn Kenny reviews “The Circle.” “The Circle” is based on the Dave Eggers novel of the same name about a woman whose new job at a Google-like company consumes her life.
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Apr 27, 2017 · Film Review: ‘The Circle’. A shrewdly ominous corporate thriller about the death of privacy in the digital age is, at last, a movie that fingers the proper culprits — namely, us. By Owen...
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Real-life tech references in the movie aren't meant as veiled accusations. Hanks' Eamon Bailey, for example, is the company's "public-facing visionary." Earlier this week, Hanks joked with Twitter CEO Jack Dorseyabout playing a diabolical tech genius with a beard. "I played you! I'm not in as good of shape, I didn't exercise or eat as well, but I p...
Other actors in the film drew from specific points of reference. Actress Karen Gillan used reports about Amazon to better understand her character, Annie. A longtime friend of Mae, Annie is part of the Circle's executive elite, delivering inhuman productivity. To get inside Annie's head, Gillan relied on a New York Times 2015 expose about Amazon, s...
To our society's credit, when abuse by tech giants comes to light, we generally respond with outrage rather than the indifference of "The Circle." But at the premiere during an audience Q&A, Hanks related his own lesson from the film, while satirizing how we can mock the behavior of movie characters only to live out the same actions ourselves. "Whe...
Apr 28, 2017 · A sci-fi thriller starring Emma Watson as a woman who joins a powerful tech company and uncovers its sinister agenda. Read the IMDb review, rating, trivia, cast, plot summary and more.
Apr 28, 2017 · movie review Apr. 28, 2017. When It Comes to Tech Thrillers, The Circle Is Pretty Square. By David Edelstein. Emma Watson in The Circle. Photo: EuropaCorp. Most of The Circle plays...
