The reviews are in! Is You Can See Everything the greatest film ever?

How exciting! What is it? It’s called You Can See Everything.

Who’s in it? DiCaprio? De Niro? 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.

Higher 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 got a metascore of 99 on IMDb and it’s effectively the highest rated cinema release ever on Letterboxd.

Effectively? 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 Dekalog (1988), 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.