“Nowadays, when you hear people talking about ‘the Facebook movie,’ chances are they mean The Social Network, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin‘s soon-to-open inquiry into the rise of Mark Zuckerberg, one of the founders of Facebook. But the description might be even better suited to “Catfish,” a documentary by Henry Joost and Ariel Shulman.” — from A.O. Scott‘s 9.17 N.Y. Times review.
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Same riff in lead graph of Catfish assessment piece in current Esquire (i.e., the one with Javier Bardem on cover).
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