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LA Times (with video):

If that sounds like a hell of a premise, you don't know the half of it. Smartly written by Aaron Sorkin, directed to within an inch of its life by David Fincher and anchored by a perfectly pitched performance by Jesse Eisenberg, "The Social Network" is a barn-burner of a tale that unfolds at a splendid clip.

Yet, while nothing is more au courant than the Facebook phenomenon, "Social Network" succeeds because its story is the stuff of archetypal movie drama. It marries the tradition of present-at-the-creation epics like "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet," "Madame Curie" and "Edison, the Man" with the familiar story of the corrupting power of ambition and success that allows audiences to feel, and not for the first time, that their ordinary lives have more meaning than those of the rich and famous.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1914455.story

Access Hollywood:

As excited as I get about great movies, I simply cannot remember the last time I loved a movie so much (and on so many levels) that it made my head spin.

It all adds up to an exhilarating and ultimately tragic character study that shares a variety of themes with “Citizen Kane.” Like that film’s Charles Foster Kane, Mark Zuckerberg is depicted as an ambitious genius whose quest for power led to the corruption of his soul. And where Kane presided over one medium that provided information (newspapers), Zuckerberg presides over another (the Internet).

The actors have plenty to work with, since Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay is so smart and well written. And though director David Fincher has amassed an incredible body of work, “The Social Network” is his best film yet, and it’s a true Oscar-contender in every sense of the word – regardless of whether its subject matter is here to stay or is just a fleeting moment in pop culture.

http://www.accesshollywood.com/movie...ticletab_37541