Release dates
August 1, 2017
95 months agoDVD / VOD / Blu-ray
Released
The Circle release date
The movie The Circle is already released on Cinema, DVD, VOD and Blu-ray in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 17 reviews, The Circle gets an average review score of 49
Emma Watson becomes the mascot for a new wave of privacy-eroding web services in James Ponsoldt's adaptation of Dave Eggers' 2013 novel, co-starring Tom Hanks.
2917d ago
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.
2917d ago
With strong UI but terrible UX, “The Circle” is a movie that has all the appearances of working — a solid director, great cast and impressive pedigree — but constantly throws errors. It’s a frustrating viewing experience with little surprise or delight to be found.
2917d ago
Emma Watson fights a losing battle with internet paranoia in The Circle.
2917d ago
The Circle‘s best parts deal with Mae’s experiences being “transparent,” and how acting as essentially a full-time vlogger forces her into constant chipperness while an unceasing stream of viewer comments flood the frame.
2917d ago
Hey, did you know that technology is a double-edged sword? That all of the byte-sized computing power that’s supposed to liberate us may also be enslaving us? This is the earth-shattering revelation at the heart of The Circle — a disappointingly glib corporate conspiracy thriller starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks.
2917d ago
It’s easy to giggle at The Circle, the movie, just as it’s easy giggle sometimes at Dave Eggers, whose novel is the film’s source.
2917d ago
The novel is at its most trenchantly funny when depicting the exhausting nature of virtual social life, and it’s in this area, too, that the movie gets its very few knowing laughs. But it’s plain, not much more than 15 minutes in, that without the story’s paranoid aspects you’re left with a conceptual framework that’s been lapped three times over.
2917d ago
If the human race could ever be wholly enslaved by a social network, Tom Hanks would be the type to pull it off. As tech patriarch Eamon Bailey, he delivers ominous pronouncements like “I believe in the perfectability of human beings” with a disarmingly warm-and-fuzzy Hanksiness.
2917d ago
A toothless, bland satire of a Google fantasy dystopia.
2917d ago
The Circle tackles internet privacy issues, makes millennials look dumb.
2917d ago
The Harry Potter alumna missteps after the $1bn success of Beauty and the Beast with a Dave Eggers adaptation that swaps initial intrigue with vapidity.
2917d ago
Tribeca: Hanks and Emma Watson are stuck in a Dave Eggers adaptation striving for relevance but never finding realism.
2917d ago
A half-baked thriller with a strong cast and a few good ideas, The Circle lacks originality, immediacy, or basic coherence.
2917d ago
The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.
2917d ago
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.
2917d ago
Emma Watson and Tom Hanks' tale of evil Internet company exploits paranoia about privacy violations – and flatlines as you watch it.
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