The Social Network
Academy Award × 3·National Film Registry
Rent/Purchase
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
What critics thought
One of the most decorated films of its decade, The Social Network earned near-universal enthusiasm from critics who found Fincher's direction, Sorkin's screenplay, and the film's editing and score working in rare, seamless unison. The few dissenting voices focused on factual liberties taken with its subjects and a reading of Harvard that some found wildly distorted — though that minority view was almost entirely drowned out by year-end lists placing the film at their very top.
“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.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“Sorkin and Fincher's 2003 Harvard is a citadel of old money, regatta blazers, and (if I am not misreading the implication here) a Jewish underclass striving beneath the heel of a WASP-centric, socially draconian culture ... to get the university this wrong in this movie is no small matter.”
Nathan Heller·Slate
“The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his screenplay on ... The Accidental Billionaires, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“his reflex for writing witty, whiny men with outsized intellect and poorly disguised narcissism serves as an advantage instead of a handicap.”
Kaitlyn Tiffany·The Verge
Genres
Biography, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDavid Fincher
StarringJesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
ComposerAtticus Ross, Trent Reznor
The Social Network
Academy Award × 3·National Film Registry
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
What critics thought
One of the most decorated films of its decade, The Social Network earned near-universal enthusiasm from critics who found Fincher's direction, Sorkin's screenplay, and the film's editing and score working in rare, seamless unison. The few dissenting voices focused on factual liberties taken with its subjects and a reading of Harvard that some found wildly distorted — though that minority view was almost entirely drowned out by year-end lists placing the film at their very top.
“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.”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“Sorkin and Fincher's 2003 Harvard is a citadel of old money, regatta blazers, and (if I am not misreading the implication here) a Jewish underclass striving beneath the heel of a WASP-centric, socially draconian culture ... to get the university this wrong in this movie is no small matter.”
Nathan Heller·Slate
“The biographical part takes liberties with its subject. Aaron Sorkin based his screenplay on ... The Accidental Billionaires, so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed.”
Joe Morgenstern·The Wall Street Journal
“his reflex for writing witty, whiny men with outsized intellect and poorly disguised narcissism serves as an advantage instead of a handicap.”
Kaitlyn Tiffany·The Verge
Genres
Biography, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorDavid Fincher
StarringJesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
ComposerAtticus Ross, Trent Reznor
Rent/Purchase