Zadie Smith neatly captures how out of his depth Sorkin is on Zuckerberg in NYRB: “From the opening scene it’s clear that this is a movie about 2.0 people made by 1.0 people.”

“Don’t we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls. Sorkin, confident of his foundation myth, spins an exhilarating tale of double rejection . . . Cue a lot of betrayal.”

“It wasn’t until this very last scene that I realized the obvious progenitor of this wildly enjoyable, wildly inaccurate biopic. Hollywood still believes that behind every mogul there’s an idée fixe: Rosebud — meet Erica.”

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generation-why/