Synopsis
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
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Cast
- Tristan HarrisSelf
- Jeff SeibertSelf
- Bailey RichardsonSelf
- Joe ToscanoSelf
- Sandy ParakilasSelf
- Guillaume ChaslotSelf
- Lynn FoxSelf
- Aza RaskinSelf
- Alex RoetterSelf
- Tim KendallSelf
Recommendations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Miraculously, it manages to unpack this perplexing issue with precision and intelligence but without any moral panic-mongering, condescension or dumbing down the complexity of the science stuff. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Jeff Orlowski’s The Social Dilemma may be the most important documentary you see this year. - 88
Movie Nation
Social Dilemma is a good film, probably too little too late to play a role in saving democracy or healing a nation so divided half of it won’t do the most basic things to stop a pandemic. But there you are, and there we are. - 83
IndieWire
While the film covers — and somehow manages to contain — a staggering breadth of topics and ramifications, one little sentence is all it takes to lay out the means and ends of the crisis at hand: Russia didn’t hack Facebook, Russia used Facebook. - 75
RogerEbert.com
The most important lesson from The Social Dilemma is that we should question everything we read online, especially if it is presented to us in a way that reflects a detailed understanding of our inclinations and preferences. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
The Social Dilemma should be mandatory viewing for everyone who has a social media account. After seeing it, you may look at your phone differently, as something that isn’t really your friend. - 70
Variety
Densely packed yet lively and entertaining documentary, whose accessibility is heightened by some narrative play-acting. - 70
The New York Times
The Social Dilemma is remarkably effective in sounding the alarm about the incursion of data mining and manipulative technology into our social lives and beyond.
