January 2011
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The Social Network Sweepstakes!
The Social Network is now available on 2-Disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray & DVD, and to celebrate we’re bringing you the Social Network Sweepstakes! Enter now at www.TheSocialNetworkSweeps.com for a chance to win a Sony Vaio S Series Laptop, brought to you by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Electronics, and Yahoo! You can even tweet for an extra bonus entry! And...
October 2010
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Millions of Friends, but Not Very Popular
MANOHLA DARGIS | New York Times- Movies | 5 of 5 Stars
What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media phenomenon Facebook — 500 million active users, oops, friends, and counting — Mark runs and he runs, sometimes in flip-flops and a hoodie, across Harvard Yard and...
Too many turn up at The Social Network screening,...
Aniruddha Guha | DNA Daily News & Analysis
The Social Network, the latest film by Hollywood director David Fincher, was supposed to be the USP of the Mumbai Film Festival (MFF), oganised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI). But that very aspect turned out to be a nightmare for the organisers, as more than 500 people turned up for the screening at a hall of PVR cinemas at Juhu that...
Jesse Eisenberg and Aaron Sorkin on Mark...
Brian Hiatt | Rolling Stone
The Social Network may be a film about real people and real events, but its star, Jesse Eisenberg, and screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) are the first to say that it can’t be taken as gospel.
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ReThink Review: The Social Network -- Geek Is the...
Jonathan Kim | Huffington Post
With the Social Network coming in #1 at the box office as discussions about the truthfulness of its portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg rage, there’s one thing few are disputing — accurate or not, the Social Network is an extremely impressive movie and an early frontrunner for Best Picture and a slew of other Oscars.
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'The Social Network' Remains Friends With Weekend...
Josh Wigler | MTV
Facebook’s popularity has never been greater, so it only makes sense that a movie based on the social networking site would be equally popular. For two weeks running, director David Fincher’s “The Social Network” has lived up to the hype, befriending the first-place spot at the box office and identifying its relationship status as “married” to...
Company Town: 'The Social Network' wins most...
Ben Fritz | LA Times
Proving that its buzz wasn’t short-lived, Facebook movie “The Social Network” topped the box office for the second weekend in a row, with ticket sales down a small 31% from its debut at $15.5 million, according to an estimate from distributor Sony Pictures.
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The Facebook Movie Is Great For America
Henry Blodget | San Francisco Chronicle
Well, I finally saw the Facebook Movie. And I loved it. True, it paints Harvard as a stuffy cartoon-scape. True, it treats women as as video-game props, sex tools, and platforms for coke-snorting. And, true, Mark Zuckerberg’s character comes off as a bit of an asshole. (But based on the other evidence I’ve seen, this would seem to be a fair...
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Influencing People
David Denby |The New Yorker | Positive
The Social Network directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, rushes through a coruscating series of exhilarations and desolations, triumphs and betrayals, and ends with what feels like darkness closing in on an isolated soul. This brilliantly entertaining and emotionally wrenching movie is built around a melancholy paradox: in 2003, Mark...
'The Social Network': The Reviews Are In!
Eric Ditzian | MTV
Facebook was recently valued at $33 billion. The movie about its founding should do about .09 percent of that total during its opening weekend at the box office, and Sony will be damn happy about it.
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The Social Network
Ann Hornaday | The Washington Post
“The Social Network” is the kind of movie that by all rights shouldn’t work. A verbose compendium of scenes of people talking to one another largely in college dorms, a Palo Alto ranch house or a law office conference room, “The Social Network” has another thing not going for it: It’s centered on computers, the kiss of death...
"The Social Network" to lead the box office this...
Ben Fritz | Los Angeles Times
“The Social Network” will have a lot more friends in movie theaters this week than the competition.
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"The Social Network" Review: Like or Unlike, That...
Shira Lazar | CBS News
LOS ANGELES (CBS) Lets face it, “The Social Network” is a good movie. Actually, it might even be in the Oscar winning category of good movies.
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Facebook the movie -- a.k.a. 'The Social Network'...
Jessica Guynn | Los Angeles Times
The big day has arrived for Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg: “The Social Network” hits theaters to rave reviews from critics.
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Newsday.com
RAFER GUZMÁN | 3½ of 4 Stars
There’s something terrifically dizzying about “The Social Network,” which dramatizes a short, intense period in the life of Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old billionaire founder of Facebook. The script, by Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”), is so lightning-fast that it borders on the subliminal, while director David Fincher (“Fight...
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Los Angeles Times- Article Collections
By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic | Positive
Could it be that the person who founded Facebook, the man who connected so many individuals that the total defies belief (500 million and counting), is himself incapable of close personal friendship? Is it possible that the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, a 26-year-old whose creation unites people in 207 countries using 70...
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'Social Network': Password Is Perfection
JOE MORGENSTERN| The Wall Street Journal | Positive
In the course of a preface that’s set in the mythic past—seven years ago, when Facebook was only a gleam in Mark Zuckerberg’s eye—a young woman tells Jesse Eisenberg’s Mark that dating him is exhausting: “It’s like dating a StairMaster.” Watching “The Social Network” is like getting a...
This week's cover: Justin Timberlake and the Stars...
Staff | Entertainment Weekly
Two great covers this week — one featuring uber-entertainer Justin Timberlake, and one featuring Timberlake alongside his Social Network costars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. No matter which you receive, you’ll get exclusive news about both the pop star (who plays real-life entrepreneur Sean Parker) and a movie that’s already a frontrunner for a Best Picture at...
September 2010
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Movie review: 'The Social Network'
Kenneth Turan | The Los Angeles Times
Could it be that the person who founded Facebook, the man who connected so many individuals that the total defies belief (500 million and counting), is himself incapable of close personal friendship? Is it possible that the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, a 26-year-old whose creation unites people in 207 countries using 70 languages, is the...
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Daily News
Joe Neumaier | 5 of 5 Stars
The opening of the hyper-smart, superbly entertaining “The Social Network” sets the tone for the film: Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his almost-ex girlfriend Erica (Rooney Mara) are talking in a Harvard bar - well, she’s talking; he’s in a conversational battle - and not clicking
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AMC- Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin | 4½ of 5 Stars
The major hullabaloo over David Fincher’s The Social Network concerns its witty, intelligent screenplay, written by Aaron Sorkin, and the liberties it takes with the persons involved with the creation and meteoric expansion of Facebook. Based on a dubious non-fiction account, Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires, the film alters the story of Mark...
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US Magazine
Aniruddha Guha | 3 of 4 Stars
The birth of “thefacebook.com” at Harvard gets the big-screen treatment in this intelligent drama written by The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin. In 2003, fast-talking nerd Mark Zuckerberg (a twitchy, dead-on Jesse Eisenberg) gets dumped by his girlfriend (Rooney Mara), blogs spitefully about her, then gets inspired to create a social network that rocks...
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Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman | Grade: A
Movie stars require a quality of aggression — at least if audiences are going to feel wired to their every move. In films like The Squid and the Whale (2005) and Adventureland (2009), Jesse Eisenberg, his head lowered and jutting like a faithful dog’s, has played anxiously fast-talking, insecure nice guys, and he has often been marvelous.
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'Social Network' puts story of Facebook into the...
Claudia Puig | USA Today | 4 of 4 Stars
In A Few Good Men, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin examined the limits of honor. In The Social Network, he focuses on a few nerd men and their dishonorable behavior, single-minded ambition and greed.
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Peter Travers: ‘The Social Network,’ Movie of the...
Peter Travers | Rolling Stone
Peter Travers is not only confident that The Social Network, director David Fincher’s retelling of Facebook’s beginnings, will prove to be the best movie of the year, but that it’s the film to define the last decade. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Harvard undegrad and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, delivering the best performance of his career.
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Moviegoers Will Friend "The Social Network"
Carl DiOrio | ABC News
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Much like Facebook, “The Social Network” should launch notably and impress even more over the longer haul, though it’s a bit unclear which age group will support the drama most fervently.
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The Social Network Review: a Career-Making...
Zorianna Kit | The Huffington Post | Positive
Timely and of-the-moment, The Social Network is a film that’s not to be missed. Even if you are not a Facebook user, this story about the creation of the famed social networking website and the subsequent lawsuits that followed is compelling, fascinating and riveting.
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A Facebook Face-to-Face
Melena Ryzik | The New York Times
THE lingering question after the premiere of “The Social Network” (you know, the Facebook movie) was not about its hype, its contentious veracity or even the $100 million donation to the Newark school system that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, happened to announce on “Oprah” that day.
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Facebook Loses a Friend in Our Exclusive Clip From...
Thomas Leupp | Hollywood.com
Has Hollywood’s vaunted awards season ended before it began? It sure looks that way, given the praise that’s being heaped upon The Social Network. David Fincher’s take on Facebook and its controversial founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has emerged as the consensus top-rated film of the year, boasting a rare 100% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (It should be noted, however,...
Vulture Video: David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin on...
Staff | Vulture Video
What would Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg think of The Social Network? What do the makers of The Social Network think about Zuckerberg’s recent $100 million donation to Newark? Has Zuckerberg seen the film? Director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin sat down with Mark Harris, who wrote last week’s cover story on the film, for a video discussion of their...
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According to The Social Network, You Are...
J. Hoberman | The Village Voice | Positive
The Social Network is a wonderful title, at once Olympian in its detachment and self-descriptive in its buzz. Everyone will opine (and Tweet) on this Scott Rudin–produced, Aaron Sorkin–scripted, David Fincher–directed, universally anticipated tale of Facebook’s genesis and founding genius—at least until something sexier comes along.
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Revenge of the Nerd: David Fincher and Aaron...
Rex Reed | The New York Observer- Culture | 3 of 4 Eyes
As trends go, movies now translate to the Internet, and vice versa. The Social Network is the story of how Mark Zuckerberg, a nerdy, 19-year-old Harvard doofus with his face glued to a computer screen and all the personality and charm of road kill, invented a Web site one drunken night in 2003 that evolved into a $25 billion phenomenon...
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REVIEW: Social Network Brilliantly Explores the...
Stephanie Zacharek | Movie Line | 9 ½ of 10 Stars
By the time you read this, New Media — including its tenacious, multi-tentacled offspring, Social Media — as you knew it last year, last month or even yesterday, will no longer exist. The story of New Media is so perpetually new it’s being written and overwritten even as we speak. Shouldn’t movies — those lumbering, endangered beasts that, done...
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Metromix NY
Geoff Berkshire | 4½ of 5 Stars
Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) was just a 19-year-old Harvard student when he created the definitive social network site, Facebook. It made him the world’s youngest billionaire, but also spurred legal battles over just how many people deserve a piece of that fortune. His friend and co-founder Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) made financial investments critical...
'The Social Network' Stars Justin Timberlake,...
Moviefone Unscripted
‘The Social Network’ co-stars Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield certainly don’t lack for comedic chemistry despite how dramatic their latest movie is.
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Tech Entrepreneurs Discuss “The Social Network”
Staff | Mashable
On Monday, Mashable hosted screenings of The Social Network in both New York and San Francisco. At our New York event, we followed up our screening with a panel that discussed several of the prominent themes of the film –- how to protect your idea, building a team and scaling an Internet company -– as it related to the panelists’ own endeavors and other aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Jesse Eisenberg shines in must-see Facebook flick
James Verniere | The Edge
A highbrow “Animal House” for the Facebook generation, David Fincher’s “The Social Network” draws an epochal line in the sand, separating the old millennium from the new..
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'The Social Network': Satisfying For Facebook...
Staff | MTV Movies Blog
If anyone here at MTV Movies is the target audience for “The Social Network,” it’s our social media manager Jenny McCoy. Now that she’s seen the flick about Facebook’s origins, Jenny offers her thoughts on the movie that’s making Mark Zuckerberg squirm..
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“The Social Network” searches for Zuckerberg’s...
Graham Flanagan | Rick’s list
During the opening scene of David Fincher’s new film “The Social Network,” Mark Zuckerberg says something that resonates throughout the rest of the movie. The future-billionaire is having a beer with a young lady who he’s apparently dating. That all changes when she hits him with six very devastating words: “I just want to be friends.”
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‘The Social Network’: A one-man world
Marshall Fine | Hollywood and Fine | 4 of 4 Stars
The tsunami of effusive praise has been gathering force about “The Social Network.” By the beginning of September, it was being crowned the best movie of the year, the decade, the century – the best ever made! – in a lot of overheated reviews on the Internet and elsewhere.
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Did You Have to Attend Harvard to Enjoy The Social...
Mike Ryan | Vanity Fair
Facebook’s world domination continues in this weekend’s dramatized version of its creation, The Social Network. Can the tale of Mark Zuckerberg’s life work live up to all the expectations? Will The Social Network sweep the awards season or will you want to close the book on this film as quickly as you close your browser once your friends from the Midwest get too caught up...
Why "The Social Network" isn't just "the Facebook...
Louis Peitzman | San Francisco Bay Guardian
Based on the founding of Facebook and Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires, The Social Network has already received rave reviews from critics. I offer no dissent: the film is unquestionably one of the year’s best. I recently spoke to three of its lead actors — Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Armie Hammer — and screenwriter Aaron...
The Social Network for Best Picture and more?
Patrick Fancher | Get The Big Picture
And the Oscar goes to… The much anticipated Friday opening of David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network’ has already created an Oscar-worthy stir from critics everywhere. We’re all well aware of what the movie is about at this point. And if you don’t know…It is the story of a college student, Mark Zuckerberg, who created...
The Social Network Gaining Oscar Buzz
Staff | Popstar
The Social Network (2010) is set to release October 1st and the film is scoring rave reviews across the board, plus it is even stirring up Oscar buzz! The film recounts and somewhat glorifies the success of the social network Facebook. The screenplay was adapted by the highly sought after writer, Aaron Sorkin who wrote The West Wing and the 1992 megahit A Few Good Men just to...
They're Real, And They're Rich: The Social Network
Corey Denis | SF Appeal
Great storytelling is an art. David Fincher’s new film The Social Network tells a story we’ve already seen, heard, and used. Everything about it is familiar. We know what it looks like and what it is today. We know the name of Facebook’s Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who has already been tagged and viewed in plenty of amateur film.
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MovieMantz Reviews: ‘The Social Network’ & ‘Let Me...
Access Hollywood- Movie Mantz | SEE IT!
Scott “Movie” Mantz says he can’t remember the last time he loved a movie as much as “The Social Network,” but is it really the best movie of the year? Plus, why does Scott think you should see “Let Me In,” a remake of a 2008 Swedish film, starring Rising Star Chole Grace Moretz?
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MovieMantz Review: ‘The Social Network’
Scott Mantz | Access Hollywood
As excited as I get about great movies, I simply cannot remember the last time I loved a movie so much (and on so many levels) that it made my head spin.
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The Huffington Post
Marshall Fine | Positive
The tsunami of effusive praise has been gathering force about The Social Network. By the beginning of September, it was being crowned the best movie of the year, the decade, the century — the best ever made! — in a lot of overheated reviews on the Internet and elsewhere.
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“The Social Network”: Mashable’s Complete Movie...
Christina Warren | Mashable
On the surface, The Social Network is the story of Facebook — a website created in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 that has redefined how we connect and communicate in the 21st century. At its core, the film is much, much more than just the story of one website. It is both a micro and macro look at success, failure and the trappings of ego and greed
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Revenge of the Nerd: David Fincher and Aaron...
Rex Reed | The New York Observer- Culture
As trends go, movies now translate to the Internet, and vice versa. The Social Network is the story of how Mark Zuckerberg, a nerdy, 19-year-old Harvard doofus with his face glued to a computer screen and all the personality and charm of road kill, invented a Web site one drunken night in 2003 that evolved into a $25 billion phenomenon called Facebook...