The following article contains spoilers for The Social Reckoning.

is – and I will fight anyone who contests this – one of the best films of the 21st century; an eerily prescient glimpse at the founding of Facebook and the total technological upheaval of our lives as we knew it, with a note-perfect Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, penned by a razor-sharp Aaron Sorkin, directed by a never-better David Fincher and with an incredible techno score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It won three Oscars, made big stars of its cast – Andrew Garfield, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara and Dakota Johnson, in her first on-screen part as an adult – and remains as rewatchable as ever.

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So, when it emerged that Sorkin would be returning, 16 years on, to both write and helm a sequel, , with a formidable line-up which includes recent Oscar winner Mikey Madison, industry darling Jeremy Allen White, and none other than Jeremy Strong as an all-grown-up Zuckerberg, I was floored. Focusing on “The Facebook Files”, a 2021 data leak by former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen to ’s investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz, it tells the story of the pair’s battle to hold Zuckerberg’s all-powerful empire to account. Naturally, I was first in line to see the film when it finally landed in cinemas, and left with an awful lot of questions. These are the 54 which will continue to haunt me.

1. Did the film need to open with that weird hate crime?
2. The first thing people see on screen in are the words: “Prologue: White Girl Wasted”. Why did that happen?
3. Did anyone else think they were in the wrong movie?
4. Is Mikey Madison playing the prototypical geeky girl with glasses who’s actually super hot but doesn’t know it?
5. Why can’t Jeremy Allen White aka Jeff Horwitz use GPS?
6. Why is anyone trying to friend someone on Facebook in 2019?
7. Why is , of all people, trying to friend them on Facebook?
8. Did Facebook really put Jeff’s face on the big screen like that in a team meeting?
9. Why is Mikey Madison aka Frances Haugen speaking in such a cutesy, babyish voice?
10. Can she really not remember her points without her cue cards?
11. Isn’t her boss telling her to go on dating sites because she “needs loosening up”, like, some sort of HR violation?
12. Did Jeff really send individual LinkedIn messages to hundreds of people?
13. Don’t his interns have any workers’ rights?
14. Does Frances have much time for hiking given how demanding her job is?
15. Why is she so good at predicting the weather?
16. Has she kind of been written as a manic pixie dream girl?
17. I’ve just Googled Frances Haugen and, wow, why were no efforts made to make Mikey Madison look anything like her?
18. Also, Frances is a data scientist, but what does her job entail on a day-to-day basis?
19. In all honesty, was Jeff fully qualified to be reporting on this story?
20. Why did Frances say “spinning class” and not “spin class”?
21. I know that these statistics about Facebook’s impact on its users are objectively shocking, but are they actually still surprising to anyone?
22. Like, isn’t it now obvious to everyone that social media negatively impacts our mental health?
23. Did anyone else find the time jumps weirdly confusing?
24. Did we need these titled chapters?
25. Do these chapter titles feel a bit generated by AI?
26. Could you have basically cut out all the Mark Zuckerberg scenes and not really lost anything?
27. Why is Jeremy Strong’s wig so bad?
28. Is this the first Jeremy Strong performance where he’s… not good?
29. Is this how Mark Zuckerberg conducts all of his meetings?
30. What colour tie did he choose in the end?
31. Why did the blue tie “not work”?
32. Why did the insurrection scenes look so… kind of cringey?
33. Did we need this dramatic choral music during the insurrection scenes?
34. Did anyone else really miss the great music of ?
35. How can Jeff afford to live in a hotel room long term if aren’t paying him that much?
36. Years later and he’s still living in the same hotel room?!
37. Did Mikey Madison need to rewear her outfits in this film?
38. Why do so many Facebook employees all live in the same building?
39. Was it just Frances, or did everyone at Facebook know a lot more about the pandemic than we did?
40. How much is Frances paying for this Airbnb in San Juan?
41. Did she keep her San Francisco apartment when she moved to Puerto Rico?
42. How rich is she?
43. Did she always remote work while sipping a margarita?
44. Is it safe for Jeff and Frances to have this argument so publicly on the beach?
45. Why did Frances’s colleague suddenly want to help her?
46. Why does this scene with a teenage girl and her parents feel so soapy and stilted?
47. Why did Frances feel it was appropriate to listen to their conversation and then approach them?
48. Why don’t we hear more about how drug cartels and human traffickers use Facebook?
49. Was anyone else relieved that Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White didn’t get together romantically?
50. But, in that moment where they hold hands, did it feel like they were about to?
51. Why do all do-gooder newsroom movies kind of feel the same?
52. Why does this film have so many dad jokes?
53. Did , a perfect film, need a sequel? No, it did not.
54. But, is this film still better than ? Yes, it is.