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The Social Reckoning | Average Guy Movie Review

After her friend is seemingly radicalised by Facebook, Francis Haugen (Mikey Madison) - a mid-level engineer with the company - begins looking at radical content on the platform. But when her bosses prove to be uninterested in the troubling data she finds, Francis reluctantly turns to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), who is investigating the social network's effects on society. As a fan of both The Social Network  and Aaron Sorkin, I was both uncertain and excited at the prospect of a follow-up. On the one hand, another movie from the master of snappy dialogue and the 'walk and talk' is always welcome. His optimistic takes on important institutions, as well as his recreations of historical events always prove to be gripping, almost intoxicating affairs - even when you have little or no interest in the subject matter. I thoroughly enjoyed Moneyball , despite my lack of interest in the sport it revolves around. But how do you follow up what is g...

The Gentlemen | Average Guy Movie Review

Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) has built a multi-million pound cannabis empire, and used it to ingratiate his way into British high society. But with legalisation on the horizon, Mickey's looking to sell up and retire, spend some time with the wife. The problem is word of Mickey's plans have got out, and the vultures are circling. Can the gentleman drug dealer keep his empire intact long enough to find a buyer? Guy Ritchie returns to the genre that made him with a movie that puts a hilarious - and not entirely unbelievable - spin on the British upper class. Told mostly through flashback, and from the point of view of Fletcher, a sleazy private investigator played by Hugh Grant in a show stealing performance. Very different from the type of character we're used to seeing Grant play, Fletcher is by far the best thing about The Gentlemen. Something of an unreliable narrator - he is prone to flashes of "artistic license" - his attempts to liven up t...