The reviews are in! Is You Can See Everything the greatest film ever? — SkimNews
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- You Can See Everything, a three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, earned a 99/100 Metacritic score — tying 2016 Best Picture winner Moonlight and marking the highest score in Metacritic's history for a documentary.
- The film logged $15M at the US and Canadian box office in its opening weekend, with audiences undaunted by the lengthy runtime.
- Rotten Tomatoes rates the documentary at 99% from 117 reviews, putting it in contention for the site's best-rated film of 2026.
- You Can See Everything also holds a 99 metascore on IMDb and a 4.7/5 on Letterboxd, where it is the highest-rated cinema release ever (the only entries ranked higher are a Radiohead concert and two TV shows).
- 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."
- The documentary currently sits 24th on Metacritic's all-time film list, with its only Best Picture–winning peer at 99 being Moonlight.
Why it matters: An unskippable 99/100 Metacritic score for a three-hour documentary on a disgraced fraudster is a genuine critical anomaly, and the matching $15M opening weekend confirms audiences are following the reviews rather than tuning out. With Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, and Letterboxd all converging near maximum scores, the film now has a substantiated claim to being the best-reviewed cinema release in aggregator history.
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