Movies Update: The most anticipated movie of the year is finally here.
Plus, you know this “Slow Horses” star, but you’ve never seen her like this.
Movies Update
October 16, 2026

Hi, movie fans!

It’s finally here! “You Can See Everything,” the Nathan Fielder-Lance Oppenheim documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, is arguably the most anticipated movie of 2026 (and in a year with “The Odyssey,” that’s saying something). When it played the Telluride Film Festival, the surprise screening made headlines around the world.

Outside of the so-called festival bubble, what do reviewers think? Manohla Dargis made it a critic’s pick for The Times, writing, “As a portrait, the movie is intimate and analytic, informative and incomplete. It’s also off-the-charts bonkers.”

Other Times critics are equally effusive. In conversation, Jason Zinoman, who specializes in comedy, and Alissa Wilkinson, who writes about movies but has been paying close attention to Fielder’s career, tried to get at what makes the film so riveting. For one, Zinoman noted that the film hits “notes of cringe comedy, spy thriller, horror,” while Wilkinson appreciated that “it made me aware of my presumptions that what I see onscreen is ‘real’ unless I’m told otherwise.”

Read their conversation after you see the film (because it’s a hard film to talk about without spoilers) and let us know in the comments section your thoughts.

Of course, a lot is happening elsewhere in movieland. This weekend, The Times is holding a journalism movie series at the Metrograph in New York City. Tickets are sold out, but a few films will be available online, including “This Is Not a Movie” and “Reality Winner.” (Pro tip: If you’re a Times subscriber, you can get a 40 percent discount on a Metrograph membership.)

Whatever you decide to watch, enjoy the movies!

CRITICS’ PICKS

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A24

Critic’s Pick

‘You Can See Everything’ Review: The Slippery Mind of Elizabeth Holmes

The disgraced tech entrepreneur and the comic Nathan Fielder chat and joust in a dizzying movie about truth, reality and the contours of knowledge.

By Manohla Dargis

Richard Bruce Nugent, in a reddish turtleneck, gestures above Jean Blackwell Hutson’s head in a room full of Harlem Renaissance contributors.

Neon

Critic’s Pick

‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ Review: A Renaissance of Their Own

The Black luminaries who turned 1920s Harlem into a hub of artistic expression gathered decades later to reminisce. It was a house party for the ages.

By Manohla Dargis

MOVIE REVIEWS

Two men stand forehead to forehead in an outdoor field, one wearing a blood-stained shirt and the other in a military jacket.

Carla Oset/Netflix

‘La Bola Negra’ Review: In Search of Freedom, and Love

A sprawling three-pronged Spanish epic reads the past to find meaning in the present, but can’t quite find its ending.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Two women in 19th-century period dress look at a man whose back is turned to the viewer.

Focus Features

‘Sense and Sensibility’ Review: Can’t Buy Me Love

A lush new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel leans into youth and money troubles.

By Alissa Wilkinson

A man with long hair and silky red and white shorts stands in fighting stance in front of a cheering crowd.

Brook Rushton/Paramount Pictures and Legendary Pictures

‘Street Fighter’ Review: Choose Your Fighter

It’s hard to introduce a dozen or so cartoon fighters in a story, but this fun adaptation of the ’80s arcade game has a sturdy enough script to bear the load.

By Brandon Yu

A pensive young man in scuba gear stands on an ocean shoreline, gazing into the distance.

Jennifer Clasen/20th Century Studios

‘Whalefall’ Review: In the Belly of the Beast

Austin Abrams plays a grieving son in search of his father who ends up trapped inside a very large mammal in a family drama that’s too literal for its own good.

By Ben Kenigsberg

Two men crouching onstage holding microphones.

Magenta Light Studios

‘California Schemin’’ Review: Two Lads Take the Low Road to Fame

A hip-hop duo from Scotland tries to convince U.K. record executives that they hail from Los Angeles in this film, based on a true story.

By Glenn Kenny

Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, Willem Dafoe and Benjamin Hoetjes, dressed in winter coats and hats, stand on a snowy mountain.

Kirsty Griffin/Apple TV

‘Tenzing’ Review: Peak Ambition

An overlooked Mount Everest pioneer gets an overdue tribute in this pleasingly dignified mountaineering drama.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

A shaggy-haired man and a woman, both in layered silver and white garments, stand against a white-sky background.

Kim Chapiron/Netflix

‘Sacrifice’ Review: Party Crashers at the End of the World

Starring Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy, this nonsensical eat-the-rich satire follows an aging movie star swept up into a deranged eco-terrorist plot.

By Beatrice Loayza

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Amazon MGM Studios

‘Love of Your Life’ Review: Living Through Heartbreak

Margaret Qualley plays a nurse in Boston who finds love and then loses it in this fine romantic tragedy.

By Natalia Winkelman

NEWS & FEATURES

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Vincent Tullo for The New York Times

Alex Gibney on ‘Musk’ and Why a 4-Hour Film Was Necessary

The documentarian also talks about trying to interview the trillionaire and the roadblocks the film has run into.

By Nicole Sperling

A portrait shows a man with stubble on his face looking quizzically at the camera. He’s wearing a black shirt with white seams.

Rachel Lamb for The New York Times

Q&A

Austin Abrams Is Pretty Chill, Actually

In “Resident Evil” and “Whalefall,” the actor navigates worst-case survival scenarios. In real life, things seem to be going just fine.

By Ashley Spencer

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HBO; A24

Get to Know the Work of Nathan Fielder, Master Interviewer of Elizabeth Holmes

The comedian may be an unexpected choice for a documentary about the disgraced Theranos founder, but his TV shows suggest why he’s a good fit.

By Kellina Moore

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Ullstein Bild, via Getty Images

A Movie About a Political Killing Fuels South Korea’s Culture Wars

The film, “The Assassin(s),” revisits a 1974 shooting that has spawned J.F.K.-style conspiracy theories, exposing divides over the country’s history.

By Choe Sang-Hun