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GenreBiography, Drama & Thriller
RatedR
Runtime1 hr 52 mins
ReleasedOctober 9, 2026
StreamingIn theaters now
DirectorAaron Sorkin
StarringMikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku
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The Social Reckoning (2026)
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| The Social Reckoning's Details | |
| Genre | Biography, Drama & Thriller |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 09/29/2026 (Curzon Mayfair); 10/09/2026 (United States) |
| Streaming | In theaters now. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 52 mins |
| Budget | $30–42M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| The Social Reckoning's Interests | |
| General | Whistleblowers, internal memos, hearings on C-SPAN. |
| Music | Whatever Trent Reznor would charge too much for. |
| Movies | The Social Network. The prequel, technically. |
| Television | The Newsroom. Sorkin can't help it. |
| Heroes | Fact-checkers. |
| The Social Reckoning's Crew | |
| Director | Aaron Sorkin |
| Writers | Aaron Sorkin |
| Producers | Todd Black, Peter Rice, Aaron Sorkin, Tony A. Grier, Stuart M. Besser |
| Cinematography | Jeff Cronenweth |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat |
| Edited By | Alan Baumgarten |
| Production | Columbia Pictures, Alcon Entertainment |
| Distributed By | Sony Pictures Releasing |
Aaron Sorkin went back to Facebook, and this time the audience mostly stayed home. It made $6.7 million domestic on a reported budget somewhere between $30 and $42 million, which is a rough result for a movie this loaded with famous names. The trouble is baked into the idea. The Social Network had a kid in a hoodie building something. This one has a data engineer, a stack of internal research and a reporter trying to get it into print, which is important and also, on screen, a lot of reading. Mikey Madison has the hardest job, playing a real whistleblower whose whole weapon is paperwork. Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg is the kind of casting you either buy instantly or never do. Bill Burr is in it, a sentence I still can’t fully explain. Critics landed at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 51 on Metacritic. A 5.1 because the story matters more than the movie makes you feel it does. $7.36 says you turn off one notification tonight and feel like a whistleblower for it.
What works: The subject matters, and on paper the cast, with Mikey Madison as Haugen and Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg, gives it real weight.
What doesn’t: A whistleblower story built on internal documents is tough to make exciting, and critics and audiences mostly didn’t bite.
Who it’s for: Sorkin completists, people who followed the Facebook whistleblower story as it broke, and anyone who likes a thinkpiece in movie form.
Aaron Sorkin goes back to Facebook. In 2019, data engineer Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) finds out what the company knows about its own product, and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) wants the story. Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg. Bill Burr is here too. One hundred and twelve minutes of walk-and-talk about your newsfeed.
Anyone who quit Facebook and still checks Instagram.
| Mikey Madison | Frances Haugen |
| Jeremy Allen White | Jeff Horwitz |
| Jeremy Strong | Mark Zuckerberg |
| Bill Burr | Charlie Garrigan |
| Wunmi Mosaku | Raya |
| Billy Magnussen | Teddy Marks |
| Betty Gilpin | Kris |
| Gbenga Akinnagbe | Andy |
| Anna Lambe | Morgan |
| Aidan Laprete | Zach |
| Kelley Pereira | Evelyn |
| Nelson Franklin | Tom |
| Portia Doubleday | Kayleigh |
| Patrick Fischler | Robbie |
| Joey Brooks | Brendan |
| Sierra Capri | Deputy Diaz |
| Tehmina Sunny | Amal |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +280 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $10.1M → $10.5M; Domestic box office $6.7M → $7.2M; Profit / loss (est.) -$49M → -$48.7M; Rotten Tomatoes 55% → 54%; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 55% (242 reviews) → 54% (243 reviews); IMDb users 6.7 / 10 (6,765 votes) → 6.7 / 10 (7,149 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +200 Numbers refreshed: Rotten Tomatoes 54% → 55%; RT 54% (234 reviews) → 55% (242 reviews); PostTrak audience 75% positive; IMDb users 6.7 / 10 (6,394 votes) → 6.7 / 10 (6,765 votes); movie.guru score 4.9.
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 16 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: score credits updated.
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 15 October 2026 DataBot +280 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $9.8M; Domestic box office $6.5M; Opening weekend $5M; Profit / loss (est.) -$49.1M; Rotten Tomatoes 54%; box office chart updated; RT 54% (234 reviews).
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 15 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.