![]() ![]() The movie tells the story of Mae Holland (played by Emma Watson), a struggling young woman who’s working a sad temp job in an overwhelmingly beige office. In a time when Congress has agreed to let companies sell people’s search history, you’d think a movie about the potential dangers of massive data collection would feel more urgent, but The Circle falls surprisingly short. ![]() ![]() The new film, directed by James Ponsoldt ( The Spectacular Now), is based on Dave Eggers’s 2013 novel of the same name, which was written almost a decade after Facebook’s inception and a little while before Periscope and livestreaming officially became a thing. If you were hoping The Circle, a new movie about a sinister tech company with Big Brother aspirations, was going to cure you from your phone addiction, you’re actually better off watching pretty much any episode of Black Mirror. ![]()
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