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How does Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning live up to its predecessor? Review by  Jodie Daalder
“Given the number of laboured literary references shoehorned into The Social Reckoning, it feels apt to liken this belated sequel to the Ship of Theseus: stripped of its original parts and refurbished entirely. Without David Fincher directing, Nine Inch Nails composing the score, or Jesse Eisenberg reprising the role of Mark Zuckerberg, the only creative force this new film shares with The Social Network is its notoriously verbose screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, also stepping into the role of director this time.”
“Without a firm editorial hand, the film stumbles along to its sanctimonious shocker of an ending; Sorkin has never met a climax that he can’t telegraph with rousing trumpets. Stripped of the material pleasures of a court procedural, this is a toothless polemic that will ironically appeal most to Facebook boomers.”
Continue reading  Jodie Daalder’s review on  In Review’s website.
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Posted On: October 12th 2026, 01:00 am
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As Aaron Sorkin takes on the 2021 Facebook leak in 'The Social Reckoning', a follow up to 2011's 'The Social Network', @jodie_cd writes about how Sorkin's attempts to recapture the Fincher-directed and Nine Inch Nails-scored magic of the original film without any of these aspects, falling flat on its face.

Continue reading Jodie's review on the In Review website, link in bio!

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