The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 1 - 'The Social Network’

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Sean and Amanda return to continue their yearlong project of listing the 25 best movies of the 21st century so far. Today, they discuss David Fincher’s ‘The Social Network,’ the era defining study of the Internet. They make the claim that this is their generation’s ‘Citizen Kane,’ explain why it is a comfort movie about everything that is horrible, and crown Jesse Eisenberg for delivering one of the defining performances of the century. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Producers: Jack Sanders and Jacob Cornett Shopping. Streaming. Celebrating. It’s on Prime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennacy. I'm Amanda Dobbins. And this is 25 for 25. A big picture special
0:19.9	conversation show about the social network.
0:21.6	You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this.
0:25.6	If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.
0:30.6	Here we are.
0:32.6	We come to the end.
0:33.6	We come to the end of this project.
0:35.6	We come to this place for magic. Well, maybe not this specific place. We come to the end of this project. We come to this place for magic. Well, maybe not this specific place.
0:39.6	We come to the movies for magic.
0:41.5	And this is a magical movie that we're talking about today.
0:44.2	The number one movie on our countdown.
0:46.7	There was never really any doubt that this was going to be the number one movie, right?
0:51.2	It was not discussed.
0:52.6	I think we'll be airing the selection special
0:55.0	later this week that we recorded in March. And I don't recall any back and forth about
1:03.0	whether this should move from the spot. It was slotted in at number one and there it stayed.
1:07.8	It has been a collective favorite of this podcast since we've been doing it.
1:15.3	It's where we meet, where our tastes meet.
1:18.3	And it is also an astonishing and, like, increasingly underappreciated film of our generation about the world that we lived in and are going to continue
1:34.1	living in.
1:35.9	This episode of The Big Picture is presented by Amazon Prime.
1:39.4	You know how in every great holiday movie, there's that last minute scramble to make it all
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