The Social Network (2010)

All Critics (276) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (269) | Rotten (11) | DVD (10)

Fincher and Sorkin's ironic essay on both the advances and decline in social networking

November 16, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

The movie's lustrous, deep-focus frames and headlong pace are difficult to resist. Its an entertainingly cynical small movie.

October 4, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

You will know The Social Network is something very special from its first scene.

October 1, 2010 Full Review | Comments (14)

Charlie McCollum

San Jose Mercury News

Top Critic

The Social Network shares creative DNA with a handful of classic, zeitgeist-savvy films like Network and All the President's Men, as well as more recent fare such as The Insider and Michael Clayton.

October 1, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

This is the 2010 Oscar season's first drama to live up to the hype and expectations associated with it.

October 1, 2010 Full Review | Comments (21)

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

There's a cool precision and honesty to The Social Network, the story of the founding of Facebook, which guarantees its entertainment value even as it limits its emotional impact.

October 1, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Even if you've never touched a computer in your life, you'll find plenty to be fascinated by in this movie, as it shows that, whilst technology may be moving fast, the human capacity for hubris will always remain the same.

December 13, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Laurence Boyce

The Baltic Times

... A classic American story of capitalism and greed, friendship and betrayal, fueled by envy and lost innocence ...

November 5, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

At last, a movie you can actually discuss afterward. And not just on Facebook or Twitter. No, you'll want to chew it over in person, with friends, for hours.

October 7, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Leah Rozen

The Wrap

It's hard work making a character you don't like into a character you don't like, but can still respect.

August 15, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

Perhaps we've become a world of Mark Zuckerbergs and it's clear that these filmmakers don't like it one bit.

June 29, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ed Whitfield

The Ooh Tray

It's part Citizen Kane, part Goodfellas, part Revenge of the Nerds and the most entertaining film you never knew you would want to see.

April 4, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dave White

Movies.com

The Social Network is so engrossing you don't even notice how heavy handed the films central dramatic irony could be -- that the greatest tool for communication in the modern age was created by someone who has no idea how to relate to other people.

April 1, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

I've read a lot about The Social Network at this point, mostly raves about how it supposedly captures The Way We Live Now, but no one has really zeroed in on how deliberately alienating it is.

February 23, 2011 Full Review | Comments (48)

Dan Callahan

House Next Door

You wouldn't think that [Fincher & Sorkin's] talents would gel, yet their collaboration on The Social Network is brilliant ... a gripping tale of ambition and envy, betrayal and resentment.

February 15, 2011 Full Review | Comments (6)

Jason Best

Movie Talk

That the project is not only a success but one of 2010′s best films is a testament to Fincher's talent as a director and his seemingly perennial ability to surround himself with incredibly astute, like-minded collaborators.

February 14, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Shaun Munro

What Culture

Almost certainly deliberately indebted to [Citizen] Kane, a quality that wordlessly speaks to Zuckerberg's own inflated ego.

January 28, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

he Social Network occupies a gray area, in which everybody's perspective is in question, and most of the main characters slip into self-serving, subjective realities. ... an ingenious way to tackle a very curious, contemporary case

January 27, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Matt Kelemen

Las Vegas CityLife

There's a real mischievousness to David Fincher's approach.

January 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Bryant Frazer

Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

The scariest screen villain since Psycho's Norman Bates!

January 19, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

Enormously entertaining, thought-provoking and fascinating despite a flawed, possibly biased screenplay.

January 16, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

This elegantly and scrupulously produced Blu-ray essentially serves as an all-in-one For Your Consideration campaign for David Fincher's soon-to-be Best Picture-winner.

January 10, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

• 1. Eduardo Saverin: This is gonna be like I'm not a part of Facebook.
  2. Sean Parker: It won't be like your not a part of Facebook. You're not a part of Facebook.
  3. Eduardo Saverin: My name's on the mast head.
  4. Sean Parker: You might want to check again.
  5. Divya Narendra: Is this because I froze the account?
  6. Sean Parker: Did you think we were gonna let you parade around in your ridiculous suits, pretending you running-
  7. Eduardo Saverin: SORRY, my Prada's at the cleaners. Along with my hoodie and my fuck you flip-flops, you pretentious douche bag!
  – Submitted by Michael C (54 days ago)
• 1. Erica Albright: You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.
  – Submitted by Kasia P (2 months ago)
• 1. Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
  2. Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
  3. Gage: Okay - no. You don't think I deserve your attention.
  4. Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. [pauses] Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
  – Submitted by Kasia P (2 months ago)
• 1. Cameron Winklevoss: What, do you want to hire an IP lawyer and sue him?
  2. Divya Narendra: No, I want to hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of him with a hammer!
  3. Tyler Winklevoss: We don't even have to do that.
  4. Cameron Winklevoss: That's right.
  5. Tyler Winklevoss: We can do it ourselves. I'm 6'5, 220, and there's two of me.
  – Submitted by Harold M (2 months ago)
• 1. Ad Board Chairwoman: Before we begin with our questioning you're allowed to make a statement, would you like to do so?
  2. Mark Zuckerberg: I've, You know, I've already apologize to the Crimson, to the ABHW... To Fuerza Latina, and to any women in Harvard may have been insulted as I take it that they were As for any charges stemming from the breach from the security,I believe I deserve some recognition from this board.
  3. Ad Board Chairwoman: I'm sorry?
  4. Mark Zuckerberg: Yes.
  – Submitted by Shayak B (2 months ago)