The story condescends to Mae, and, by extension, to smart, ambitious millennials everywhere-I'm not a millennial, but I felt offended on their behalf. "Watson is reasonably charming at first but annoying by the end, largely because it's hard to believe that this clearly bright young woman could also be such a gullible idiot. 'The Circle' is like a buggy app, something you want to work but is doomed to be remembered more as a missed opportunity than a memorably cautionary message for our times." "With so many thinly drawn characters and a sputtering engine of suspense, it's hardly the crackerjack denouement the movie needs. (It also features numerous scenes of symbolic kayaking.) For all its dire warnings about the dangers of the internet, 'The Circle' feels less an urgent cautionary tale than a dyspeptic toldja-so, as if its primary purpose were to ensure that the people who made it could pull the film out in 10 years and say, 'See?'"ĥ Reasons Why 'Ghost in the Shell' Flopped in Theaters It's a movie that thinks it's bitterly ironic to have Mae's cellphone ring with the Shaker hymn 'Simple Gifts,' making Mae the only millennial in the U.S. "The movie's characterizations are broad and bland, and the haphazard editing leaves apparently major figures stranded for long stretches of the story: 'Star Wars' John Boyega turns up in what would seem to be a key role-and is then reduced to a mute, disapproving presence at the back of the room during the Circle's in-house pep rallies. Reeling us in with the promise of telling us something new about the fast-moving conspiracy to monetize our private lives, it turns out to be just a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance." "'The Circle' is almost as much of a bait-and-switch for its audience as The Circle is for Mae. How'd That Homophobic 'Beauty and the Beast' Boycott Work Out?Īll that probably won't help distributor STX Entertainment sell tickets as it hits theaters today.
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