Writer/director James Ponsoldt has made his mark on American feature filmmaking with some of the most absorbing character dramas in recent memory, such as The Spectacular Now, Smashed, and The End of the Tour. Now he finds himself going the Hollywood route with the adaptation of Dave Eggers' suspense novel The Circle, about a young woman (Emma Watson) hired by a major and influential Internet company, and quickly falls prey to the shady dealings going on behind the scenes involving its founder (Tom Hanks)