Director James Ponsoldt (who adapted the book with Eggers) barely develops any character besides Watson's, piling on narrative complications instead.

Bland performances from talented actors, and boring direction from a very talented director, and awful editing...

An idea in a Hollywood thriller is almost an accident now, so The Circle deserves praise for thoughtfulness.

The new pseudo-dystopian thriller “The Circle” incites the over-obvious social media and data-mining fears of our present surveillance society of sharing and shines them up into a shiny and engrossing yarn of mainstream entertainment.