What to Watch This Weekend: The Best-Reviewed New Movies Are Nearly Seven Hours of Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk, and Street Fighter Makes Critics Wait

The two best-reviewed movies reaching theaters across the country this Friday are documentaries about Silicon Valley founders, and together they run nearly seven hours. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything, which spends three years with Elizabeth Holmes, sits at 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Alex Gibney's Musk, which Elon Musk has called "a psy op," sits at 98. And the weekend's biggest movie, Street Fighter, will not have reviews until Thursday.

It is the second straight weekend of tech on trial. Aaron Sorkin's Facebook drama The Social Reckoning opened to about $5.5 million last weekend, while Other Mommy won with $27.5 million and a D-plus CinemaScore, as we broke down Monday. Here is how to spend October 16 to 18, in theaters and on the couch.

The one to see: You Can See Everything

In 2023, 34 days before she reported to federal prison for defrauding Theranos investors, Elizabeth Holmes let a film crew move into the house she shared with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two young children. Holmes had approached A24 about a documentary herself. The filmmakers kept following the couple for about three years.

The directors are the hook. Fielder made Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, and this is his first feature. The plan was for him to stay behind the camera. It did not work out that way. Amanda Seyfried, who won an Emmy playing Holmes in The Dropout, turns up as herself and, at times, as Holmes again.

It holds 100 percent across 38 reviews with a 97 on Metacritic. Variety's Owen Gleiberman called it "a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus." The Guardian called it a "stupefying and gloriously destabilizing hall of psychological mirrors." A24 opens it Friday, rated R, at 2 hours and 54 minutes. Box Office Theory pegs the opening near $10 million, a rare number for a documentary.

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The longer one: Musk

Gibney has been here before: his 2019 HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley was about Holmes. His new one runs 3 hours and 55 minutes, with an intermission, and traces Musk from celebrated inventor to political power broker. Musk did not sit for an interview, so Gibney uses a computer-generated Musk who speaks to the camera in words taken from Musk's public remarks. Critics are at 98 percent across 40 reviews. Musk, who reportedly has not seen it, called it "a hit piece that misses."

Now the practical part. HBO bought the streaming rights in 2023, but HBO belongs to Paramount after last week's merger, and David Ellison's father, Larry, is friendly with Musk. "Would Musk be able to call Larry or David and say, you know, don't put this doc on? Yeah," Gibney told the AP. If you want to be sure you see it, a theater is the safe bet. It is rated R and expands nationwide Friday.

The big one: Street Fighter

Paramount scheduled press screenings for Wednesday, and reviews are reportedly held until Thursday, the day before it opens. The bar is low: the two earlier live-action Street Fighter movies sit at 20 and 3 percent. First reactions from Monday's premiere ran mostly positive, praising the fights and the hand-drawn animated flashbacks, with complaints about jokes that miss. Our full preview has the cast and the history.

It is rated PG-13, runs about two hours, and was filmed for IMAX. Tracking runs from the mid $20 millions to $40 million, likely enough for No. 1. If you grew up feeding quarters into the arcade cabinet, buy the IMAX ticket. If you want a critic's word first, wait a day.

The wild one: Whalefall

Brian Duffield, who made the nearly wordless alien thriller No One Will Save You, adapts Daniel Kraus's novel. Austin Abrams plays Jay Gardiner, a diver searching for his late father's remains off the California coast, who gets swallowed by a sperm whale with one hour of oxygen left. Josh Brolin plays the father. The crew built much of the whale for real, including a 30-foot head with an animatronic tongue that was filmed underwater.

First reactions out of early screenings were strong. One critic called it "a new claustrophobic classic." Another called it "guts, slime, and a terrific time." The recurring complaint is that the father-son story turns sentimental by the end. Full reviews were set to post Wednesday, and Rotten Tomatoes had none logged early in the day. It is rated PG-13, runs 106 minutes, and forecasts put the opening at $8 million to $15 million. Abrams also starred in Resident Evil last month.

Also opening wide

Sense and Sensibility

Georgia Oakley (Blue Jean) casts Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor Dashwood and Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne, with George MacKay as Edward Ferrars and Caitríona Balfe as their mother. It sits at 78 percent across 49 reviews, and the consensus says it "may not best previous adaptations but achieves a wistful identity of its own." Expect a quieter, more downbeat Austen than Ang Lee's 1995 film. Rated PG, 2 hours and 12 minutes.

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

Our top pick last weekend opens everywhere on Friday after growing 37 percent in just 34 theaters. Mahershala Ali plays a devout hitman protecting his children in Houston, and it holds 96 percent across 100 reviews. If three hours of documentary is not your idea of a weekend, see this instead.

The couch picks

VisionQuest (Disney+, streaming now). The third series in the line that began with WandaVision premiered Tuesday night with two of its eight episodes, with more weekly into November. Paul Bettany's Vision is in hiding until a bounty sends him on the run with a teenager who may be his reincarnated son, and James Spader is back as Ultron. It sits at 82 percent across 45 reviews, with praise for both actors and grumbling about exposition. Then see where it lands on your TV show tier list, or revisit our Marvel movies ranked.

Tenzing (Apple TV, Friday). Jennifer Peedom, who made the documentary Sherpa, tells the 1953 Everest summit from Tenzing Norgay's side, with Genden Phuntsok as Tenzing, Tom Hiddleston as Edmund Hillary, and Willem Dafoe. Caitríona Balfe co-stars in her second release of the weekend. It sits at 97 percent across 33 reviews, and the main knock is a conventional biopic shape.

Also arriving: all eight episodes of The Diplomat season 4 (Netflix, Thursday), Judd Apatow's all-archival Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald (Netflix, Friday), and A24's summer flop The Death of Robin Hood, with Hugh Jackman, on HBO Max Friday, from our October streaming guide.

Keep score as you go: add each one to Shortlist, rank it head to head against the movies you already love, and find out whether a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes really outranks Street Fighter on your list. Our movie tier list guide shows how.

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