Don't hesitate to see this.

Rating: 8/10 (11 February 2011)

"I was your only friend. You had one friend."
The Social Network is a very smart, entertaining look at the founding of Facebook, it's (co)creator, Mark Zuckerberg, and the various legal actions that have taken place over the creation and ownership of the company that has become the face of social life on the Internet.
I'm sure that a lot of liberties have been taken with the story of what really happened (if anyone actually knows), but those liberties make for a very good movie. The cast is great, with Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, and Jesse Eisenberg standing out as the biggest and most important roles. The writing and dialogue are very sharp, and the cinematography, especially in the initial setting at Harvard, (though filming didn't happen on the actual Harvard campus, of course), is memorable.
David Fincher did a great job cultivating a believable, fascinating atmosphere from all the melodrama. If you're wondering what could be so interesting about a "Facebook movie", I recommend that you do yourself a favor and see for yourself. The Social Network is a movie that doesn't try to label its subjects as good or bad guys, and it doesn't attempt to be a documentary showing exactly what happened. It does, however, aim to entertain. Aim and succeed.