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Friday’s openings: Everyone’s watching

Dan Webster

Maybe it's because we're only a week away from one of the 2017 summer movie season's most-anticipated films, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" (which opens May 5), nothing much is scheduled for this coming Friday's national release schedule.

But at least one big film will open:

"The Circle": Based on the novel by Dave Eggers (who co-wrote the screenplay), this contemporary horror story — and, yes, that's kind of what it is — by James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now") tells the story of a young woman who is hired by a Silicon Valley social media company that wants everyone to live in the open. Well, virtually anyway.

A second possible opener:

"How to Be a Latin Lover": In limited release, this film revolves around a known womanizer, dumped by his longtime wife, who is humbled before the world. Que lastima.

And at the Magic Lantern:

"Gifted": The second-run film stars Chris Evans as a man trying to raise his genius niece the way he thinks his late sister would have wanted. Math time.