Early Reactions to Sorkin's 'Social Network' Follow-Up
Aaron Sorkin's film “The Social Reckoning,” a follow-up to “The Social Network,” has been shown to members of the film press, and Variety has collected the first reactions. They include “solid sequel,” “a harsh assessment of [Mark] Zuckerberg” and “a scathing indictment of the current tumultuous state of society.” Full reviews are due ahead of this weekend's theatrical release.
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The pull quotes are about Zuckerberg and about society, hardly about the filmmaking. That is a strange reception for a sequel to a movie that was itself mostly about a website and a lawsuit.
“Solid sequel” and “scathing indictment” are doing very different jobs in the same sentence: one grades the film, the other grades the subject. The early buzz may say more about the mood than the movie.