The best reviewed film in history.
Not even out yet, except in the US and Canada.
Coming soon to a screen near you.
How exciting! What is it? It's called You Can See Everything.
Who's in it? ? ? Both? It's not that kind of film.
What's it about, then? The subject of the documentary is Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of …
Did you say documentary? No thanks. But reviews of this particular documentary have been overwhelmingly favourable!
I don't go to the cinema to learn things. Critics have been unstinting in their praise for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's unflinching three-hour examination of the Theranos scandal's architect and …
Three hours? Are you kidding? I know that seems long, but the Guardian's critic called it "a stupefying and gloriously destabilising hall of psychological mirrors, a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime collision of director and subject". And audiences have so far been undaunted by the long run time – it logged a phenomenal $15m at the box office in its opening weekend in the US and Canada.
Meh. And the film has earned an unprecedented Metacritic score of 99/100.
Unprecedented? Certainly for a documentary – in fact, you'd have to go back to the 2016 drama Moonlight to find a best picture Oscar-winner with the same score.
You mean it's higher than The Odyssey? The Odyssey got 88/100.
Bigger than Digger? Digger got 46.
At the end of the day, Metacritic is just one review aggregator. On Rotten Tomatoes, You Can See Everything has a 99% rating from 117 reviews so far, putting it in contention for the site's best-rated film of 2026. It's also effectively the highest rated cinema release ever on Letterboxd.
? With a 4.7/5 score, it's the fourth-highest reviewed overall, but the three above it are a live Radiohead concert and two TV shows (Band of Brothers and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood).
Where are some of the other highest-rated films in history? Metacritic's top 10 best-rated films include Citizen Kane (1941), The Leopard (1963), The Conformist (1970) and Tokyo Story (1972).
Those movies all have one thing in common: I haven't seen them. It's early days, obviously, but You Can See Everything is already 24th on Metacritic's all-time list.
What are some of the worst-rated films? Rotten Tomatoes' bottom 10 (of films that have received 20 reviews or more) includes: Tom & Jerry: The Forbidden Compass (2025); Left Behind (2014), starring Nicolas Cage; Roberto Benigni's adaptation of Pinocchio (2002); and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004), which Joanne Kaufman of the Wall Street Journal described as "unspeakably ghastly".
Fortunately, I haven't seen any of those either. I don't know where you would even find them.
Do say: "The hype is deserved."
Don't say: "The nachos were excellent."