The Social Network (2010)

All Critics (285) | Top Critics (50) | Fresh (273) | Rotten (11) | DVD (10)

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

Leah Rozen

The Wrap

Top Critic

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

November 16, 2010 Full Review | Comments (7)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

Despite the fun of the parties, the intrigue of the legal wranglings and the humour of the dialogue, Fincher and Sorkin never let us forget that we're complicit in their story (or at least 500 million of us are).

October 14, 2010 Full Review | Comments (6)

Dave Calhoun

Time Out

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 (16)

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

Fincher keeps the movie's tech-y elements on the periphery, focusing instead on the time-honored dramatic elements of isolation, determination, avarice and betrayal.

August 17, 2013 Full Review

Brent Simon

Shared Darkness

The Social Network is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller, packed with energetic incident and surprising performances.

June 14, 2013 Full Review

Scott Foundas

Film Comment Magazine

The movie that shows you just what being "the smartest guy in the room" will get you.

January 27, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

Movie Nation

Aaron Sorkin's amazing script and several great performances make this one of the best movies of 2010.

January 6, 2013 Full Review

John Hanlon

Big Hollywood

The Social Network may not turn out to be the definitive movie made about the plugged-in generation, but it's a pretty good start.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

Fincher's keen eye for direction and Sorkin's sharp script make this worth seeing for fans and non-fans of [Facebook] alike.

September 23, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Director David Fincher seems drawn to these stories of misguided rebels who become monsters in their attempts to reorder the world.

June 12, 2012 Full Review

Jeffrey Overstreet

Image

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

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

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

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 | Comments (3)

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 | Comments (2)

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

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 (77)

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 | Comments (2)

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 | Comments (3)

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

• 1. Eduardo Saverin: Sorry! My Prada's at the cleaners! Along with my hoodie and my 'fuck you' flip-flops, you pretentious douchebag!
  – Submitted by Eli T (6 months ago)
• 1. Cameron Winklevoss: Is there any way to make this a fair fight?
  2. Tyler Winklevoss: We could jump out and swim.
  3. Cameron Winklevoss: We'd have to jump out and drown.
  4. Tyler Winklevoss: Well, you could forward and I could row backward.
  5. Cameron Winklevoss: We're genetically identical. Science says we'd stay in one place.
  6. Tyler Winklevoss: Just row the damn boat.
  – Submitted by Eli T (6 months ago)
• 1. Sean Parker: Well, I founded an internet company that let folks download and share music for free.
  2. Amelia Ritter: Kind of like Napster?
  3. Sean Parker: Exactly like Napster.
  4. Amelia Ritter: What do you mean?
  5. Sean Parker: I founded Napster.
  6. Amelia Ritter: Sean Parker founded Napster.
  7. Sean Parker: Nice to meet you.
  – Submitted by Eli T (6 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!
  – Submitted by Eli T (6 months ago)
• 1. Mark Zuckerberg: You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.
  – Submitted by Eli T (6 months ago)
• 1. Mark Zuckerberg: Do you realize that you jeopardized the entire company? Do you realize that your actions have destroyed everything I've been working on?
  2. Eduardo Saverin: We have been working on.
  3. Mark Zuckerberg: Without money, the site can't function. Let me tell you difference between Facebook and everybody else. We don't crash ever! If the serves are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed.
  4. Eduardo Saverin: Look...
  5. Mark Zuckerberg: Users are fickle. Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire use base. The users are interconnected. That is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online. and if one domino goes, the other dominos go. Don't you get that? I'm not going back to the Caribbean Night at A-E-Pi!
  – Submitted by Jean R (7 months ago)