THE SOCIAL RECKONING Movie Review — Great Script, Missing IMPACT

By Zach Pope

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Zach Pope reviews THE SOCIAL RECKONING, Aaron Sorkin’s companion piece to THE SOCIAL NETWORK starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong. THE SOCIAL RECKONING is better than I expected. But it’s also slightly disappointing. And those two things can absolutely be true at the same time. Inspired by true events, THE SOCIAL RECKONING follows Facebook engineer Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, as she enlists Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White, to help expose some of the company’s most closely guarded internal information. That gives Aaron Sorkin A LOT to work with. Corporate power. Social media. Algorithms. Addiction. Misinformation. Internal decision-making. The enormous influence these platforms have over modern society. And Sorkin’s screenplay is easily one of the strongest things about the movie. The dialogue moves. The information comes FAST. Characters d

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