Review: THE SOCIAL RECKONING

F This Movie! · Oct 9, 2026

by Rob DiCristino

Drop the “director.” It’s cleaner.

Any list of the most important films of the twenty-first century should include David Fincher’s 2010 docudrama, The Social Network. Written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book, The Accidental Billionaires, Fincher’s generation-defining masterpiece traces the origin of our Post-Truth Era (era) to a Harvard dormitory where nineteen-year-old Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is reshaping the world in his own lonely, hostile, self-righteous image. Pounding out the code that would eventually spawn Facebook, Zuckerberg had no idea…