'Dazzling' Social Network Is 'Absurdly Enjoyable'

On the eve of its opening, the Social Network continues to get serious love from reviewers. The Facebook movie's Rotten Tomatoes score is humming along at a 98% positive clip. Samples:

• Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: It "quickly lifts you to a state of exhilaration, and pretty much keeps you there for two hours." The film "is devastating as biography—an unfriending of epic proportions—and dazzling as contemporary cultural history."
• Ty Burr, Boston Globe: "On the level of craft, the movie’s just absurdly enjoyable." It "moves like a shark, but it’s hardly soulless." As Mark Zuckerberg, "Jesse Eisenberg comes of age as an actor."

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It "has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive."
• Armond White, New York Press: In one of the few negative reviews to be had: "This is TV-trite. In The Social Network, creepiness is heroized."

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