2026's 174-Minute Masterpiece Is Officially The Highest-Rated Movie In History

Published Oct 18, 2026, 6:38 PM EDT

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You Can See Everything is dominating more than the box office.

The Rehearsal's Nathan Fielder and Primetime's Lance Oppenheim teamed up to direct the documentary that follows Elizabeth Holmes before she goes to prison for defrauding investors in her health technology company Theranos. The nearly three-hour-long feature grossed $15 million from only 855 U.S. theaters during its opening weekend, far surpassing the expectations of debuting between $7 and $8 million.

On Letterboxd, You Can See Everything is now the highest-rated feature film of all time with an average rating of 4.8/5. It has surpassed Harakiri (4.7), The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (4.7), 12 Angry Men (4.6), and Come and See (4.6). The weighted average is based on 144,673 user reviews, 73% of which give it five out of five stars. The overall number may fluctuate as more reviews are added to the site.

ScreenRant's You Can See Everything review by George Bate gives the movie nine out of 10 stars, explaining that "a nearly three-hour documentary about a widely covered public figure may not sound that appealing to the average moviegoer, but such a description belies just how layered, enthralling, and thought-provoking You Can See Everything is."

The overwhelmingly positive reception extends to Rotten Tomatoes, where the documentary has a "Certified Fresh" 99% Tomatometer score based on 115 reviews and a "Verified Hot" 98% Popcornmeter score based on more than 1,000 verified ratings. The critics' consensus states that "Nathan Fielder's ironclad commitment to the bit is pushed to its limit in You Can See Everything, an inscrutable Rorschach Test of Elizabeth Holmes' psyche that's as absorbing as it is haunting."

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At the box office, You Can See Everything not only surpassed its own projections, but had the best opening weekend for a non-concert documentary since Michael Moore's 2004 hit Fahrenheit 9/11. Fielder and Oppenheim's feature broke the record previously held by 2012's Chimpanzee at $10.7 million, along with Melania opening with $7.2 million earlier this year.

The only movie to outgross You Can See Everything at the domestic box office during opening weekend was Street Fighter with $31 million. The documentary outperformed Other Mommy ($8.35 million), Whalefall ($8 million), Sense and Sensibility ($7.25 million), Verity ($6.212 million), Resident Evil ($5.5 million), Heart of the Beast ($4.83 million), Jailer 2 ($3.27 million), Forgotten Island ($2.25 million), Primetime ($1.674 million), The Devils ($1.64 million), The Social Reckoning ($1.55 million), Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother ($1.206 million), Digger ($920,000), and Spider-Man: Brand New Day ($700,000).

Making the stellar reception and box office performance all the more impressive is that the movie was kept under wraps until a trailer was released on September 6 following a surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival. Compared to most movies, this offered little time to market it, but there was instantly considerable buzz that only continued to grow, leading to the near-universal acclaim as seen on Letterboxd and Rotten Tomatoes, in addition to the record-breaking box office numbers.

Before You Can See Everything, Fielder was best known for HBO's The Rehearsal and Showtime's The Curse, both of which he created, wrote, produced, and starred in. With a 96% Tomatometer score for The Rehearsal and 93% for The Curse, the documentary continues Fielder's work being well-received by critics.