Every director has their misfires in their filmography, with even one of the all-time greats like Steven Spielberg having films like
Hook or
The Lost World: Jurassic Park in their filmography. But it's always a disappointment when a director I seriously like manages to craft a dud, kinda like when a parent realizes their kid has committed some kind of crime, y'know? You know they're better than this, how could this have happened? In the case of
The Circle, it's director James Ponsoldt, the filmmaker behind
The End Of The Tour and the particularly excellent 2013 drama
The Spectacular Now, that stumbles here when he tackles the world of cyber-security and internet privacy.
