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FilmPG-132017
The Circle
Directed by James Ponsoldt
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity. From TMDB
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The Circle is a 2017 drama thriller science fiction film, directed by James Ponsoldt, starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks and John Boyega.
- 116 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Nov 29, 2017 to Nov 3, 2026
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60 of 122 · most liked firstA thing I greatly appreciated about HOPPERS is its riff on the lion king; the latter makes a huge ass deal about the Circle of Life but then don’t actually show the lions killing gazelle b/c that would upset children. This new movie is all: yeah. They eat one another. POND RULES, SON 🦫
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally saw Past Lives, which is lovely, and I appreciate that John Magaro resolved the whole "Jews can play Italians and Italians can play Jews" thing simply by being both. (He and Greta Lee and Teo Yoo are all excellent and the movie actually managed to make me want to take the Circle Line.) 👍
neutral · AI labelView post →The Circle Jerks played Oriental Theatre last night before a screening of Alex Cox's cult-classic film REPO MAN. Our review:
neutral · AI labelView post →It's the Circle of Life..." Circle of Life® is not only the name of Elton John's famous song from the film "The Lion King," but also the name of the beautiful garden rose launched by Tantau House in 2021. Its golden-yellow flowers remind us of the colors of a spectacular sunset. More info in Alt
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching a movie called The Circle and man it's so bad. Real squandering of a great cast. Plus someone called BART "the subway"
negative · AI labelView post →Supposedly anyone who disturbs them is cursed. It is claimed that when a crew making a film in 1985 called 'The Circle of Doom' added a stone to the circle the curse ensured that the only copy of the film got lost in the post.
neutral · AI labelView post →To help launch a brilliant new London arts space and venue in Hampstead, Bond composer David Arnold is showcasing an intimate event celebrating his work... DAVID ARNOLD - SCORES & STORIES: THE ART OF FILM MUSIC The Circle & Star Theatre Fri 12th Dec / £30 circleandstar.com/schedule/?fb...
neutral · AI labelView post →The bravery of this man whose storytelling so terrifies the Iranian regime. The White Balloon, The Circle, This Is Not A Film, Taxi Tehran, 3 Faces, It Was Just An Accident – if you do one thing this week, watch one of these magnificent films. He's risked everything to bring them to us:
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie that takes place where you're from. 🎥 Most notably, the Circle K is now a Corner Market about a mile from my home in Tempe, AZ. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow. Jafar Panahi visits the Criterion closet, but instead of filling up his tote bag (as I would have), he gives us a short film. NB: Those unfamiliar w/his film, The Circle, which he discusses here - more via @szacharek.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2001/04/20/c... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH9...
neutral · AI labelView post →Film fact: The first film to ever feature an exploding helicopter was BREAK IN THE CIRCLE (1955). Films fans then had to wait 4 years until BEHEMOTH, THE SEA MONSTER (1959) to watch another exploding helicopter.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Circle is now casting for its rebooted season on Hulu. Applicants must be U.S. residents 18 years or older and available to film for about seven weeks commencing on or about Nov. 1. Apply here: thecirclecasting.com
neutral · AI labelView post →#FridayFive Kids bangers. Songs from same film allowed. 1. The Circle of Life. The Lion King. 2. How Far I'll Go. Moana. 3. My Neighbour Totoro. Ending Theme. 4. You're Welcome. Moana. 5. Aslan's Theme. The BBC Chornicles of Narnia.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thrilled to announce that my screenplays “Stardust” “His Horse is Crazy” “The Trial of Edgar Allan Poe” and “This is Phoenix Not the Circle Jerks” been named Quarterfinalists at the Vail Film Festival!
neutral · AI labelView post →The voicemail I got today from Julia at the Austin Film Festival letting me know, “your scripts His Horse is Crazy… and…(sniggers)… This is Phoenix…(sniggers)… Not the Circle Jerks (sniggers) have advanced” is probably my favorite voicemail EVER 😆
neutral · AI labelView post →#Paws4music There are songs that move you, impress you, and completely unforgettable. When these songs also happen to be the opening title for a masterful movie, even better. The Circle of Life from the Lion King. youtu.be/Ga-ijQP0KxY?...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE CIRCLE (Jafar Panahi, 2000). An immensely powerful film that illustrates how attuned Panahi has been to the crippling restrictions imposed on women by Iranian society since the early stages of his career. Being female in this world seems akin to serving a prison sentence, >> (1/2) #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →70 years ago today film history was made when the first movie with an exploding helicopter was released, BREAK IN THE CIRCLE (1955). 🚁💥📽️ Director: Val Guest Cast: Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring
neutral · AI labelView post →Has anyone watched the movie The Circle? It's about Muskrat. And his X Pay. This is why he wants our banking info...to automatically enroll us in his banking scheme.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m pretty sure the first time I watched Southbound was with my ex-girlfriend. We rented it from the Redbox outside the Circle K near my old apartment. Why do I remember that? No idea. 😂 But I digress. I really do enjoy this movie! #FrightClub #Southbound
neutral · AI labelView post →MOVIE TRAILER: Don’t Break the Circle…, 11min., USA www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ers... Watch the HORROR Shorts Festival: www.wildsound.ca/videos/horro... A paranormal investigator arrives on a dark and stormy night, called upon by a grieving mother. However, not everything that answers is family.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm getting sent to military school if I can't pass my history exam Monday at 8, so I'm counting on #HATM to give me the history I need from this bodacious movie. Join us to talk about medieval babes, phone booths, Napoleon, and the strange things afoot at the Circle K #BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure
neutral · AI labelView post →The Circle of Lif... Oops, Wrong movie #Congo #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →Con’t #HATM Strange things were frequently afoot at the Circle K Haven’t watched it since her death, and don’t want to now, but I love this movie so so so much.
neutral · AI labelView post →A cool thing happening in my hometown of Tulsa, OK: Every month, PJ Sosko gathers short film scripts and local actors and performs public live reads at the Circle Cinema Sandbox. He asked me to contribute this month, so tonight the troupe will be performing my holiday story, THE CHRISTMAS SUB.
neutral · AI labelView post →“If we could tell a film, then why make a film?” Happy 66th Birthday to Jafar Panahi, remarkable and timely Oscar-nominated Iranian filmmaker and actor, acclaimed for THE WHITE BALLOON, THE MIRROR, THE CIRCLE, THIS IS NOT A FILM, CLOSED CURTAIN, TAXI, NO BEARS, and IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, and more
neutral · AI labelView post →During that same phase in my life, I ended up at a small party in Echo Park at which one of the other attendees was Zander Schloss from the Circle Jerks, who appears in the film. It was easily as exciting as the public corruption sting operation in which I took part that same week.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Circle was a bestselling book turned into a movie starring Tom Hanks and people still trying this?
neutral · AI labelView post →i asked and i forgot it was actually from the movie The Circle where this literally happens 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →FILM FREAK FRIDAY #FilmFreakFriday SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) 2022 A fascinating documentary about the British album cover designers called Hipgnosis. Packed with rock stars. Recommended. Available on Amazon Prime. 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a movie line better by adding lmao “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K, lmao.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Gabriel’s birthday is a good day to watch Anton Corbijn’s 2022 documentary Squaring the Circle: the Story of Hipgnosis www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Ou... I’m watching on Kanopy, via my public library.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie: Squaring the Circle: the Story of Hipgnosis. A delightful, pull-no-punches documentary. Anton Corbijn brings great style and emotion to a film that could have easily been one of those "and then THIS happened" style docs.
neutral · AI labelView post →They literally made a movie about this concept that is chillingly haunting. 'The Circle' with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. This is literally the worst timeline.
negative · AI labelView post →I wrote The Circle because I got tricked by the trailer to The Prestige into thinking it was a completely different film to the one it was, and liked my idea better...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Circle (2017). Plot that went nowhere wasted on a otherwise fantastic cast. Oh and it was Bill Paxton's last film appearance. What a damn shame.
negative · AI labelView post →Saw people genuinely calling the Circle 7 Toy Story 3 better than the final movie and like. Idk man I don't wanna see racist Woody
neutral · AI labelView post →My Letterboxd Review: If I’d have known this was the kind of movie where the Circle Jerks played a terrible lounge act in a dive bar where the protagonist discussed alien corpses with his girlfriend and a federal agent with a metal hand, I’d have probably watched it 25 years ago… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
positive · AI labelView post →i guess it's better than being stuck in the Circle from the movie Circle (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw it at our independent theater, the Circle Cinema, here in Tulsa last weekend. Great movie. Heartbreaking and enraging!
positive · AI labelView post →I love a horror movie that baits the audience in with one subgenre, and then pivots at the midway point. The Circle on Shudder does just that, beginning as a forsenic murder mystery, and then pivoting to… well, that would be telling! And it stars Daredevil’s Deborah Ann Woll! Big recommendation!
positive · AI labelView post →I'm watching It Was Just An Accident, the only other Panahi movies I've seen are The Circle and This Is Not A Film, I have work to do
neutral · AI labelView post →Ever wanted to know which film was the first to show an exploding helicopter? Well, it was 1955's BREAK IN THE CIRCLE.
neutral · AI labelView post →make a movie slutty The Circle Jerk
neutral · AI labelView post →This reminds me I missed The Circle (both the book & film) the first time around. I know it's poorly reviewed but I am looking for films to include in my class on Enshittification. So bad Seattle Public Library doesn't even have it on DVD.
neutral · AI labelView post →What movie am I making kiddo watch with me tonight? "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Repo Man for the first time in about 35 years. All I remembered from the first time was the Circle Jerks and a glowing boot of a car. What an odd film, cool though
neutral · AI labelView post →Hands down, my favorite movie soundtrack: Love Kills Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious covering Frank Sinatra is genius. Joe Strummer, the Circle Jerks, the Pogues... also good.
neutral · AI labelView post →You know, this movie can spring for Chili Peppers and the Circle Jerks, then it has just random stuff and later, Meatloaf. #SpaceApeCinema
neutral · AI labelView post →Flyers promoting the 7pm screening at the Circle Cinema in Tulsa. Stuart has previously taken the doc to Europe, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, & elsewhere. Depicting a fun & experimental L.A. music & social scene from the time of REPO MAN's release, film is available via streaming for those elsewhere.
neutral · AI labelView post →every day of 2026, I'll post a story from an anthology film or series. 3️⃣0️⃣4️⃣⅐ FEAR ITSELF (2008) "The Circle" D: Eduardo Rodríguez W: Richard Chizmar, Johnathon Schaech On Halloween, a writer's retreat at a cabin in the woods takes a scary turn when guests arrive and his horror story becomes real.
neutral · AI labelView post →There are SO many great songs from SO many great movies to choose from, but I have to give it to The Circle of Life from The Lion King. The second the film starts and this song permeates your senses, you KNOW you're about to witness a masterpiece.
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Circle of Life" always makes me cry Leigh and I are watching various entries of The Lion King franchise for her own fan comic, and we're starting with the first movie. But ever since I first saw the movie as a kid, this song always makes me cry. Emotional 🥲
neutral · AI labelView post →What a great movie. My #HammerFilms education continues. Break In the Circle was a nice little thriller.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's festivities: The Circle Jerks + Repo Man at the Fitzgerald Theatre in Saint Paul, MN. They opened the show with Alex Cox singing the title track from the movie (second picture). Right now, it's the Q&A before the movie. I'm in hog heaven.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Bill--strange things are afoot at the Circle K." I have to quote this line every time I see a Circle K. Cannot not do it. LOVE this movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →We have literally become The Circle (2017 film)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville NY is celebrating its 25th anniversary. As part of that celebration, they’re bringing back a number of films from their first year, at 2001 prices. Today I’m seeing GHOST WORLD, THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE, and THE CIRCLE, with a friend I met at JBFC.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Ghostbusters Day from Indianapolis! We'll be celebrating the 42nd anniversary of our favorite film here in the Circle City by zappin' and trappin' the ghosts that won't stay dead. How will you be celebrating? Let us know by commenting or calling 317-982-2368!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Matrix. Before the internet explained everything, a friend of mine and I wanted to see a movie. The marquee: "The MATRIX starring Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves," and were like "What the fuck, Ted in a movie with Laurence Fishburne? Strange things are afoot at the Circle K." We were wrong.
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