The Social Network Reviews
NYC Movie Guru
Lackluster, pedestrian, emotionally hollow and underwhelming despite exquisite cinematography and a timely, initially intriguing premise.
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| Original Score: 5.49/10
Slant Magazine
What you're left with is a host of issues far more stimulating than the movie raising them is.
House Next Door
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.
FilmsInReview.com
An anti-charismatic Charles Foster Kane with social issues, class status anger, and homoerotic panic.
NewsBlaze
Cavalier when not in your face cocky, this Hollywood notion of a dumbed down, sexed up Harvard is less brainiac boot camp than Ivy League Club Med where nobody does homework. A hyper-capitalist homage to Facebook, and an infomercial in biopic clothing.
Movies for the Masses
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| Original Score: 1/5
7M Pictures
a self-important, narcissistic glorification of its own significance
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Atlantic City Weekly
Manipulation is the heart of this film, both in the story being told, and by the filmmakers who molded the true story to fit their agenda.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Eclipse Magazine
What happens when a director and writer hate their subject? A well made, but one dimensional hit piece.
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| Original Score: C
New York Press
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.
Examiner.com
Fincher's keen eye for direction and Sorkin's sharp script make this worth seeing for fans and non-fans of [Facebook] alike.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Big Hollywood
Aaron Sorkin's amazing script and several great performances make this one of the best movies of 2010.
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| Original Score: 5.0/5
The Ooh Tray
Perhaps we've become a world of Mark Zuckerbergs and it's clear that these filmmakers don't like it one bit.
What Culture
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Flicks.co.nz
An invigorating and vital film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ComingSoon.net
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.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Quickflix
This picture helps convey the significance of the social media revolution; the one that simultaneously brings us together and tears us apart. The Social Network is scarily good. It gets us.
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| Original Score: 5/5
The Vine
Fincher has delivered his best work since Seven. An even better period drama than Zodiac and even more relevant to our generation today than Fight Club.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Daily Telegraph
We're talking the internet here, so The Social Network, an analysis of events that took place all of seven years ago, is an ancient history lesson. But it's an illuminating, thoroughly engrossing one. Thrilling, too.
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| Original Score: 4/5
