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

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

| Oct 9, 2020

For many of us, the concept of algorithms is hard to grasp, but this documentary-drama hybrid is imaginative and effective in showing how they work as Silicon Valley veterans unpack many of the myriad horrors they helped create.

| Sep 30, 2020

It asks fundamental and existential questions about whether we are literally writing (with code) ourselves out of the ability to make vital decisions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2020

What the film tells us doesn't constitute breaking news, but its value lies in pulling together some alarming if abstract concepts into a genuinely scary whole.

| Sep 10, 2020

Jeff Orlowski's "The Social Dilemma" may be the most important documentary you see this year.

| Sep 10, 2020

Flawed in several places and still essential viewing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2020

"The Social Dilemma" is remarkably effective in sounding the alarm about the incursion of data mining and manipulative technology into our social lives and beyond.

| Sep 9, 2020

"The Social Dilemma" should be mandatory viewing for everyone who has a social media account. After seeing it, you may look at your phone differently, as something that isn't really your friend.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2020

It's captivating and entertaining.

| Sep 5, 2020

The questions and concerns that The Social Dilemma raises ensure that it's never boring, even if the filmmaking's way of communicating only works roughly half the time.

| Feb 5, 2020

Maybe The Social Dilemma doesn't have all the answers, but it's a good start to figuring out the questions.

| Feb 3, 2020

[A] densely packed yet lively and entertaining documentary, whose accessibility is heightened by some narrative play-acting.

| Feb 1, 2020

The film will definitely make you more cognizant of your own behavior - not just of how you use the internet, but how the internet uses you.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 30, 2020

An exemplary explainer, made with wit and clarity.

| Jan 27, 2020