The Social Reckoning

Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) has put together quite a concerning list of questions that are continually being sidelined by her Facebook bosses. Despite ostensibly working for the integrity unit of this corporation, it's all about loyalty to the business and to the cause and so they are specifically warned off pesky journalists trying to rock the boat like Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White). He's no geeky tech journo, but a political hatchet-man who is out for a story that will expose just how manipulative this organisation is with regard to it's users and their data. Of course there is ample speculation out there, but he needs proof - and when Frances (aka "Fred") realises some frankly startling statistics, she begins a sort of "Deep Throat" dialogue with this luddite reporter. What now ensues varies the timelines from the early 2020s as their work in progress assault on the innermost...

Films designed to evoke righteous indignation among audience members have one vital task to fulfill: make sure they produce content and yield feelings that live up to their intentions. Unfortunately, that’s where this latest offering from writer-director Aaron Sorkin routinely swings and misses. Often inaccurately billed as a sequel to the screenwriter’s 2010 sensation “The Social Network,” this standalone companion piece to that release once again takes viewers inside the world of Facebook to expose the cracks in the social media giant’s supposedly impenetrable armor. This fact-based offering, spanning the years 2018-2021, focuses on idealistic Facebook researcher Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a firm believer in the organization’s mission of bringing people closer together but who uncovers some troubling secrets that shake her faith in the company’s allegedly altruistic objectives....

Check out my full review @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/the-social-reckoning-movie-review-aaron-sorkin-turns-the-facebook-files-into-an-infuriating-essential-wake-up-call/ Rating: A THE SOCIAL RECKONING sits on the same pedestal as THE SOCIAL NETWORK for me, and here's an add-on to that already massively hot take: this one matters more! Aaron Sorkin turns the Facebook Files into an infuriating film about a company that knew exactly what it was doing. The free speech debate at its core refuses easy answers, and Sorkin's analogies hit hard. Some say it comes too late because all of this is public, but public isn't the same as known. Mikey Madison is excellent as a whistleblower driven by love, not spite. Jeremy Strong's Zuckerberg is a caricature I believed anyway. Sure, it looks like TV, but who cares when the story is this vital? I didn't know nearly enough going in, and I haven't...