‘The Social Reckoning’ Is No ‘The Social Network,’ and the Top Five Most Unnecessary Legasequels. Plus: The Best Movies at NYFF!
Amanda Dobbins and Sean Fennessey deliver a sharp, critical takedown of Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, a belated sequel to The Social Network, which they argue fails both as cinema and as social commentary. The film, directed and written by Sorkin without David Fincher, is dismiss
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