The Social Network reviews
rank it among the year's best
The Social Network tells the tale of Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire in history, who co-founded Facebook. The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Sports Night) and the film is directed by David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, The Game), so really great minds are at work in bringing this story to the big screen.
The Social Network scores a 97% on the RottenTomatoes Tomatometer, based on 115 critics’ reviews, while Metacritic ranks the film at a 98 out of 100, based on 36 critics’ reviews.
Here are some of The Social Network’s reviews:
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: “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.”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: “The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.”
Kenneth Turan, 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.”
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: “Quite possibly the first truly great fact-based movie of the 21st century.”
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: “This account of Facebook’s founder, and of the website’s explosive growth, quickly lifts you to a state of exhilaration, and pretty much keeps you there for two hours.”
Manohla Dargis, 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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