How Did The Circle End Up Being This Poorly-Made?

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.

Easy A Has Some Major Story Issues And Also Some Strong Humor And Acting From Emma Stone

Before the surprisingly high number of amazing High School movies we've had this decade (namely, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The Spectacular Now, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl and The Edge Of Seventeen), before Emma Stone won an Oscar and before Will Gluck directed that remake of Annie I totally forgot about before now (I never actually saw it, surprisingly), there was the High School comedy Easy A, a trailer for which I saw on the sing-a-long version of Grease all the way back in July 2010. I had wanted to see the movie after seeing the trailer that fateful day, but for some reason, it's taken me nearly seven whole years to see the actual movie!