Aaron Sorkin's film about Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, screened at the Barbican.
Aaron Sorkin is back at the Barbican with The Social Reckoning, a new film that takes him back to the Metaverse. It's billed as a companion piece to The Social Network, and it's easy to see why: it's Sorkin returning to the same company more than a decade and a half after his first film about it. This time, the focus is on the whistleblower whose disclosures sparked the social media reckoning that's still playing out today.
The story follows Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer who teams up with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz to blow the whistle on the network's most guarded secrets. It's a tale inspired by true events, and the film charts Facebook's next era from that perspective. The cast is a strong one: Mikey Madison, who you'll know from Anora, plays Haugen; Jeremy Allen White, from The Bear, takes on Horwitz; and Jeremy Strong, of Succession, returns as Mark Zuckerberg. It runs 1 hour 52 minutes, and the work is audio described and captioned, though there's a warning that it contains flashing images.
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Screenings run from Friday 9 to Thursday 22 October at Barbican Cinema 1 (Level -2, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS). Standard tickets are £15.50, which is £14 plus a £1.50 transaction fee. Members pay £11.20, Young Barbican is £6, and there's a £12.50 ticket for students, the unwaged, and over 65s. Under 18s get in for £7.50. There's also a Pay What You Can screening on Friday 16 October at 18:15, if you're looking for a more flexible way to see it.
