Variety
Continues Fincher's fascinating transition from genre filmmaker extraordinaire to indelible chronicler of our times
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The Social Network
Drama about the founders of Facebook, directed by David Fincher (Zodiac, Fight Club) and starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) as Mark Zuckerberg. Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.
Nowadays, Facebook has over 500 million members, is valued at $US 16 billion and has changed the way people interact worldwide. Here the story focuses on the company's origins – in Harvard college dorm rooms – and how overnight success and wealth impacted on Facebook's founders.
Justin Timberlake plays Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's founding president; and Andrew Garfield plays Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg.
Winner for Best Screenplay, Editing and Score at the 2011 Academy Awards. Winner for Best Director, Adapted Screenplay and Editing at the 2011 BAFTA Awards. Winner for Best Film (Drama), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Score at the 2011 Golden Globes.
2010Rating: M, contains offensive language120 minsUSA
DramaTrue Story & Biography
- Director:
- David Fincher ('The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', 'Zodiac', 'Panic Room', 'Fight Club')
- Writer:
- Aaron Sorkin
- Cast:
- Jesse EisenbergJustin TimberlakeRashida JonesRooney MaraMax MinghellaJoseph Mazzello
The Social Network / Reviews
Total Film
“Every creation myth needs a devil,” notes one of Mark Zuckerberg’s attorneys as the Facebook creator resigns himself to legal defeat. The Social Network is the story of one man’s God complex igniting his demonisation. It’s what happens when anarchy is assimilated – how rebellion gets contorted into money.
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“Every creation myth needs a devil,” notes one of Mark Zuckerberg’s attorneys as the Facebook creator resigns himself to legal defeat. The Social Network is the story of one man’s God complex igniting his demonisation. It’s what happens when anarchy is assimilated – how rebellion gets contorted into money.
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The New York Times
When Mr. Eisenberg makes Mark's face go blank, the character seems scarily emptied out: it's a subtly great, at times unsettling, performance
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The Guardian
David Fincher captures the spiteful personalities and hyperactive spirit of the age with the story of Facebook's creation
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David Fincher captures the spiteful personalities and hyperactive spirit of the age with the story of Facebook's creation
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San Francisco Chronicle
But make no mistake, whether the movie is fair or horribly unfair - I know nothing of the actual facts and can't make that determination - its portrait of Zuckerberg is a hatchet job of epic and perhaps lasting proportions.
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Roger Ebert
David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive.
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New Zealand Herald
Master director David Fincher (Fight Club, The Game) mines big drama out of the origins of Facebook in this entertaining zeitgeist-grab
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Los Angeles Times
Smartly written by Aaron Sorkin, directed to within an inch of its life by David Fincher and anchored by a perfectly pitched performance by Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network is a barn-burner of a tale that unfolds at a splendid clip.
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Little White Lies
One of cinema’s greatest strengths is that it can make the ordinary and mundane exciting and adventurous. It’s a rare thing though, and when you see it, sometimes it’s difficult to figure out how it happened. In the case of The Social Network there’s no trick.
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Hollywood Reporter
The film comes down to a mesmerizing portrait of a man who in any other age would perhaps be deemed nuts or useless, but in the Internet age has this mental agility to transform an idea into an empire.
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Empire Magazine
A rich, understated character drama that gleefully exposes the petty playground politics at the centre of one of the internet-era's most bitter court cases.
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Dominion Post
I just came across a lovely quote from the writer of The Social Network, and it seems it's a fair place to start this review - fair because the real star of this film is the script.
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Christchurch Press
Absolutely riveting examination of the social media phenomenon that is Facebook.
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