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The Circle
2017
· Movie
· 110 min
F
MEANRANK
47/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5471
- IMDb #5346
- Google retired #3812
- Rotten Tomatoes #5069
- Metacritic #4490
- Letterboxd #5716
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5239
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5104
- Metacritic Critics #4024
- Metacritic Audience #4717
- Criticker #528
- Douban #2618
- Kinopoisk #5206
- AlloCiné #4219
- Trakt #4742
Every rating
16–64
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 16, highest is Criticker on 64. Critics average 30, everyone else 51.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young woman lands her dream job at a powerful and influential tech company that values transparency and sharing. She quickly rises through the ranks as she embraces a culture of recording and broadcasting every moment of life. She soon discovers the sinister cost of a world without privacy.
Details
- Director
- James Ponsoldt
- Writers
- Dave Eggers, James Ponsoldt
- Based on
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Released
- 27 April 2017
- Country
- United Arab Emirates, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $40.7M
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