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Midway through “The Social Network,” Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) spreads his arms and exclaims to Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), “This is our time.”
The scathing drama about the rise of social networking website Facebook is, indeed, about “our time.” In a story of several lonely geniuses fighting for control over a bold concept that now defines how many of us interact with and experience our friends, our family and our world, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher made a film with ambivalence and complex cynicism that sticks a cold knife into a central nerve of contemporary culture.
And for the longest time, it looked like it was “their time” to be honored. “The Social Network” shot out of the gate like a cannon when it was released in October, earning more four-star, rave reviews than any other American film of 2010. When the dust settled at the end of the year, it would also hold top honors from the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, among dozens of other honors and mentions from regional film critic organizations and individual critics’ top 10 lists.

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