Where the 2010 film about the founding of Facebook was almost unnervingly timely, this procedural drama about the 2021 'Facebook Files' leak already feels behind the curve.
By Guy Lodge
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Sony Pictures Releasing Prior to its 2010 release, a much-held suspicion about “The Social Network” was that it was too soon for a film about Facebook. In a way, it was. At a time when most of us were still avidly adding friends on the platform, it felt like the story wasn’t yet complete. But that’s what made David Fincher’s pristinely crafted, coolly perceptive film so riveting, and so urgent: A compelling origin story, it also sounded a clear warning that Facebook, as benignly as we may have used it, wasn’t itself benign, and the man behind it, even less so. 16 years later, with “The Social Reckoning,” the previous film’s screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is out to tell us that he was right all along. The difference, this time, is we already know that.
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