Sorkin's Social Network sequel draws mixed critical reception

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Aaron Sorkin's film sequel to The Social Network has received critical commentary questioning its relevance.

Aaron Sorkin has released a sequel to The Social Network, his 2010 film about Facebook's founding. The original film presented a complex portrait of Mark Zuckerberg, portraying him as a revolutionary genius whilst simultaneously criticising his ruthless business practices and character.

Critics have responded with scepticism to the sequel. Wired describes it as an attempt to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless, whilst The Verge calls it a tepid thriller that revisits the story of how we arrived at the present moment.

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• The Social Reckoning review – Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet ZuckerbergJeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that somehow never mentions Trump Here is a film for all those people who solemnly deplore social media in conversation but haven’t quite got round to deleting their accounts. Sixteen years have gone by since The Social Network , written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher; this was the addictive, obsessive-compulsive movie about the birth of Facebook in Harvard’s macho-competitive cauldron of student sexism and nerdy self-pity, starring Jesse Eisenberg as the…The Guardian · 7 Oct, 14:00
• The Social Reckoning is a tepid thriller that reminds us of how we got hereWhen David Fincher's The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world by creating Facebook. Writer Aaron Sorkin's script was critical of Zuckerberg's character and his ruthless approach to doing business, but it also helped mythologize the co-founder at a time when the […]The Verge · 7 Oct, 14:00
• ‘The Social Reckoning’ Already Feels IrrelevantAaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.Wired · 7 Oct, 14:00

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