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    <em>The Circle</em> Is a Laughable Tech Thriller

    James Ponsoldt’s new film, based on a novel by Dave Eggers, sees Emma Watson join a Facebook-like company with sinister intentions.
    by David Sims Apr 28, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: STX Entertainment

    In 1995, a perfect piece of techno-alarmism was released in theaters, and America was never the same again. starring Sandra Bullock, predicted a world where your entire identity could be erased and re-written online, where hackers could create online backdoors into all of America’s security agencies, where you could use a website to have a pizza delivered to your door. The film was, at the time, dismissed as an absurd work of paranoia; these days, its prophecies sound extremely ho-hum. Sure, people now use Seamless

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