![]() ![]() Still, if you’d like to enjoy a movie featuring both Mr. The dedication is a kind and considerate touch. The movie is dedicated to Bill Paxton, who died in February and is quite fine in the small role of Mae’s father, who’s dealing with multiple sclerosis. And John Boyega - playing a character who was vital in the book but whose role has been reconfigured so that his function in the movie makes no sense - mostly stands around at the rear of auditoriums, backlit, and when called upon to speak does a very creditable Denzel Washington impersonation. ![]() Hanks evokes an idea of avuncular visionary charm, and doesn’t have much to do beyond that. It doesn’t help that he has to mouth lines like “We used to go on adventures and have fun and see things, and you were brave and exciting.” Ellar Coltrane, who was so unaffectedly appealing as he grew up onscreen in Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood,” can’t find any footing in the role of Mae’s Mr. Watson has to spend way too much time looking concerned while staring at various screens. One non-graphic sex act is shown between the. Theres a car crash and an offscreen death, as well as threats and characters in peril. Starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, it tackles timely issues related to privacy and accountability. The modern technological tug-of-war between privacy and security is a real and significant issue. Parents need to know that The Circle (based on Dave Eggers 2013 novel) is a thriller about a huge tech company. You’re also left with oodles and oodles of bad acting and bad dialogue. Where the book feels deliberately arch, the film just feels vague and out of touch. Starring: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega Watch all you want. “Knowing is good but knowing everything is better,” crows one of the company’s principals, a Steve Jobs-like visionary named Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks). The Circle 2017 Maturity Rating: 13+ Social Issue Dramas A young woman lands a job at a powerful internet company but soon discovers that its lavish perks and gung-ho culture conceal a troubling agenda. Adding to the forced-extroversion fun is a new invention, a multipurpose webcam that’s the relative size and shape of an eyeball. A woman lands a dream job at a powerful tech company called the Circle, only to uncover an agenda that will affect the lives of all of humanity. Ponsoldt’s movie begins with its heroine, Mae (Emma Watson), trapped in a stale cubicle doing meaningless dunning labor for a meaningless company in due time, she’s doing much more high-tech “customer experience” work at the Circle, an internet service that seems to meld all the most annoying features of Google, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. Eggers’s book is both a satire and a cautionary tale, grafting surveillance-state mechanisms to a faux-progressive vision with pronounced cult leanings - a lot of its “join us” vibe feels passed down from Philip Kaufman’s 1978 version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a tale set, like the one here, in the San Francisco Bay Area. This film, directed by James Ponsoldt, is an adaptation of Dave Eggers’s 2013 novel, and the two collaborated on the screenplay. So credit “The Circle” with ambition, at least. ![]()
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