In its cold, almost forensic way, this is as tense and exciting as it is absorbing. It's a miracle, really.

| Aug 30, 2018

The Social Network, just like its subject, is the pop culture phenomenon of the new generation.

| Original Score: A | Sep 11, 2017

Fincher does, at least, make decent entertainment out of such inherently unprepossessing subjects as computer use and legal hearings.

| Jan 13, 2017

The Social Network is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller, packed with energetic incident and surprising performances.

| Jun 14, 2013

At last, a movie you can actually discuss afterward. And not just on Facebook or Twitter. No, you'll want to chew it over in person, with friends, for hours.

| Oct 7, 2011

Like Zuckerberg, Fincher excels at data management, delivering vast amounts of information with the utmost clarity and speed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2010

It's a shamelessly biased account, as well as a seductively plausible one, although you have to keep your wits about you to get the full effect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2010

In his first venture over to the dark side, the central performance by Jesse Eisenberg is a revelation. It's Oscar-worthy stuff.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 15, 2010

David Fincher's fast-paced business drama adopts the set-up of his 1999 film Fight Club and inverts it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 15, 2010

Despite the fun of the parties, the intrigue of the legal wranglings and the humour of the dialogue, Fincher and Sorkin never let us forget that we're complicit in their story (or at least 500 million of us are).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2010

Business hasn't been this exciting since Gordon Gekko's first outing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2010

The film is almost nothing but scenes of people sitting over glowing screens, or in lawyers' offices, or in bars/diners/clubs. Yet it never seems sedentary. The jabber is intensive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2010

The Social Network is one of the movies for which 2010 will be remembered.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 10, 2010

The film's real achievement stretches beyond the story. When we've all forgotten Facebook, The Social Network will remind us what it was to be part of the generation of Millenials.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 6, 2010

A business procedural played with the intensity of a thriller and the ingenuity of a screwball comedy.

| Oct 6, 2010

The movie's lustrous, deep-focus frames and headlong pace are difficult to resist. Its an entertainingly cynical small movie.

| Oct 4, 2010

[Fincher]crafts a document that analyzes who we are now and where we're at in a way no other motion picture up to now has, and for that reason alone that probable makes the film a masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2010

You will know The Social Network is something very special from its first scene.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2010

The Social Network shares creative DNA with a handful of classic, zeitgeist-savvy films like Network and All the President's Men, as well as more recent fare such as The Insider and Michael Clayton.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2010