The Circle
Wolfe Releasing | Release Date: November 14, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDec 17, 2014
A richly absorbing historical docudrama. Read full review
80
TheWrapJames RocchiNov 21, 2014
The Circle has a sincerity and an honesty that shames far more expensive but over-polished dramas. Plenty of movies have happy endings; The Circle shows you both the happy ending and the incredibly hard work it took to get there. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 21, 2014
Haupt’s film moves along agreeably enough for a while, and the intercutting between the film’s real-life subjects, now at an advanced age, and their dramatized adventures almost 60 years ago, convincingly creates a rooting interest. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneNov 18, 2014
The film refuses to tease us with suspense, overwhelm us with sentimentality, or defy us with nuance. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubVadim RizovNov 19, 2014
Its fascinations compromised by its clunkiness, the film is a necessary niche history that serves well enough as a primer, placing it just a cut above coasting on good intentions. Read full review
60
CineVueD.W. MaultJan 8, 2015
The Circle is an undiscovered gem that constantly delights with its unshowy transference of an inherited blood debt that we finally are 'beginning' to honour. Read full review
60
EmpireIan FreerDec 8, 2014
A solid telling that spans several fascinating periods of 20th century life. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldNov 20, 2014
The sense of an invisible world being revealed is more potent than the film’s fairly standard portrayal of closeted life. Read full review
60
Village VoiceAbby GarnettNov 18, 2014
This is a fascinating and often tumultuous story, which Haupt chronicles through a mixture of interviews with the real Ostertag and Rapp (now married, they appear as a pair) alongside dramatized vignettes that, as the film wears on, feel like annoying interruptions. Read full review
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