Eye Tunes with Lucky Singh

Highlights

• The Social Reckoning revisits the world of Facebook 16 years after The Social Network
• Aaron Sorkin turns his attention to misinformation, extremism and the consequences of Facebook’s algorithms
• Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White lead the film as whistleblower Frances Haugen and journalist Jeff Horwitz
• Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg in a deliberately unusual performance
• The film makes a strong case against Facebook while sometimes leaning into Sorkin’s trademark self-righteous dialogue

Aaron Sorkin returns to the world of Facebook with The Social Reckoning, but this time the story is less interested in how the social media giant was created and more concerned with what it has become.

Sixteen years after Sorkin wrote The Social Network, the filmmaker returns as both writer and director for a whistleblower thriller centred on former Facebook data engineer Frances Haugen and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz. Mikey Madison plays Haugen, while Jeremy Allen White takes on the role of Horwitz.