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The Tufts Daily
Where you read it first | Saturday, January 25, 2025

Closed Circuit' bores in theaters with cheap thrills

The government is watching us - all of us. This sentiment, particularly resonant for audiences at a time when WikiLeaks and the NSA are prominent parts of today's zeitgeist, pervades the new British film Closed Circuit."

Directed by John Crowley and written by Steven Knight, the film is fiercely British. It takes place in London, where a devastating bomb kills 120 innocent people in a quaint marketplace. The suspect, a drug-dealing immigrant named Farroukh Erdogan, is detained. However, things get sticky when the government steps in