Nepal, Oct. 14 -- Writer/director Aaron Sorkin has mostly written about the best "American values" have to offer. As he adapted Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires into a film, around a website whose tangible footprint in our lives was still being determined, he might have considered himself lucky to find a collaborator in director David Fincher, whose films have reiterated the worst humanity has to offer. Sorkin's faith in America's institutions, coupled with Fincher's distrust of humans - and a remarkably sophisticated visual style-resulted in arguably the best film from a Hollywood studio in the 2010s.

It refined Sorkin's (sometimes indulgent) dialogue and gave it a bulletproof, titanium glaze. 16 years later, after seeing it mo...