At The Movies

Kate Rodger reviews three new films: Tenzing, Jennifer Peedom’s Everest drama with Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe; The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network sequel with Jeremy Strong; and Unabomber, Russell Crowe and Jacob Tremblay in a Netflix thriller.
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Afternoons' critic Dominic Corry reviews The Social Reckoning and NAZA.
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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.
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The Social Reckoning (written and directed by Aaron Sorkin). Follow-up to Sorkin’s 2010 Oscar-winning script The Social Network. This story follows Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) as they attempt to tell the world how Facebook has profited from inciting disinformation, hatred and discord via their powerful social media algorithm.
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Dead Man’s Wire (directed by Gus Van Sant, 2025). In 1977 Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), a disgruntled Indianapolis real estate developer took the president of his mortgage company hostage at gunpoint. The drama was followed for several days by local and national media, but especially by local DJ Fred Temple (Colman Domingo) who became Kiritsis’ main communication channel to the outside world. The story has also recently been told on TV in the drama American Hostage (Neon).
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The Last Lighthouse (1973). BBC documentary about the lonely life of the lighthouse keepers on Bishop Rock - the furthest away from mainland Britain, in the freezing Atlantic Ocean.
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Michelle Langstone reviews Big Girls Don't Cry, Paloma Schneiderman's Sundance Audience Award-winning debut feature; Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu's satirical thriller starring Tom Cruise, and The Wizard of the Kremlin.
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Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.
Night's resident screen critic joins Emile Donovan to review:
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Verity (directed by Mike Showalter). Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway star in a thriller based on a best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us). Johnson plays a struggling writer asked to become a ghostwriter for a best-selling author who has a mysterious ailment (Hathaway).
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Anemone (directed by Ronan Day-Lewis). Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement after eight years to work on his son’s debut feature. Set in the mid-90s, Day-Lewis plays Ray, a British Army veteran who disappeared in mysterious circumstances 20 at the height of the Irish ‘Troubles”. 20 years later, his brother (Sean Bean) has to persuade him to finally return home.
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The Social Network (written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by David Fincher, 2010). On Funerals & Snakes back in 2010, Dan wrote: "Hugely entertaining, but with less insight into the modern world of virtual communities and social media than one might have hoped. Perhaps that film is still to come from somewhere.” Sorkin’s follow-up, The Social Reckoning, is in cinemas from next week.
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