The documentary has an interesting start that reaches its strong point precisely by questioning the negative impact of social networks, but whose lack of answers, as a rule, remains subject to a tautological and futile horizon. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 1, 2023

Director Jeff Orlowski makes competent choices that bring an engaging presence to the talking head interviews that makes their testimonials all that more interesting.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 5, 2022

The Social Dilemma is a captivating, chilling watch on how everything from algorithms to A.I. are secretly controlling and manipulating our lives.

| Feb 3, 2022

An unfortunate massive flub on a topic of immense interest. Similar to The Great Hack.

| Original Score: 26/100 | Aug 19, 2021

The reenactments are mawkish and preachy, but 'The Social Dilemma' does very clearly make its point.

| Mar 31, 2021

Explanations and predictions from some of the creators of social media about the consequences of our growing dependence upon digital communications.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 19, 2021

The movie insists that people need to self-censor in regard to social media. If not, the state should step in.

| Feb 16, 2021

The Social Dilemma plays as much like a horror movie than a docu-drama in how it pushes our buttons to be afraid, very afraid, of Big Tech.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2021

"The Social Dilemma" is the most important documentary of 2020 if you're smart and free enough to take its dire message that social media is a Frankenstein monster killing us like insects drawn to it's grotesque fascination.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 8, 2021

These are all (or mostly) smart people, and within their area of expertise they have smart things to say. The problem is that they are called upon to extrapolate way beyond that and the result is presented as some kind of definitive argument.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 4, 2020

For all its topicality, The Social Dilemma doesn't break any big news... But it's still powerful and persuasive to see all the arguments summed up in one place.

| Dec 1, 2020

Even if it's a well-done study on social media, it is still mostly tedious.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 21, 2020

The Social Dilemma is a hard-hitting, nonchalant, and relentlessly engaging documentary that should fire up some useful conversation in the end.

| Nov 5, 2020

Truly, this outstanding documentary is scarier than a horror film because it investigates truth in social media, and truth terrifies.

| Nov 5, 2020

The film reveals much more than why you go from Googling the best sofa one minute to finding sofa ads on your Facebook stream the next.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2020

Hopefully it will challenge you to put guidance and boundaries to how often you use social media and what you use it for.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 23, 2020

The Social Dilemma is an outstanding and indispensable piece to understand the destabilizing dangers that social networks can propitiate. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 19, 2020

Cold marketing on a cosmic scale is one thing, but the human cost of getting people hooked to their devices is the film's primary concern.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 14, 2020

This is a call to action film alerting us of the addiction and the emotional struggles of adults, teens, and children that are using social media.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2020

As The Social Dilemma shows, entertainers are in no rush to hold us, or themselves, accountable.

| Oct 9, 2020