The Social Reckoning

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Rating: A

THE SOCIAL RECKONING sits on the same pedestal as THE SOCIAL NETWORK for me, and here's an add-on to that already massively hot take: this one matters more! Aaron Sorkin turns the Facebook Files into an infuriating film about a company that knew exactly what it was doing. The free speech debate at its core refuses easy answers, and Sorkin's analogies hit hard. Some say it comes too late because all of this...

Films designed to evoke righteous indignation among audience members have one vital task to fulfill: make sure they produce content and yield feelings that live up to their intentions. Unfortunately, that’s where this latest offering from writer-director Aaron Sorkin routinely swings and misses. Often inaccurately billed as a sequel to the screenwriter’s 2010 sensation “The Social Network,” this standalone companion piece to that release once again takes viewers inside the world of Facebook to expose the cracks in the social media giant’s supposedly impenetrable armor. This fact-base...

Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) has put together quite a concerning list of questions that are continually being sidelined by her Facebook bosses. Despite ostensibly working for the integrity unit of this corporation, it's all about loyalty to the business and to the cause and so they are specifically warned off pesky journalists trying to rock the boat like Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White). He's no geeky tech journo, but a political hatchet-man who is out for a story that will expose just how manipulative this organisation is with regard to it's users and their data. Of course there is ample ...