What to Watch This Weekend: An Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Takes On Clayface, LAIKA Is Still at 100 Percent, and Taika Waititi Hits a Career Low

The most interesting fight at the box office this weekend is between a superhero movie and a documentary. DC's Clayface, the first R-rated film in James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Universe, opens Friday. The same day, You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's 174-minute Elizabeth Holmes documentary, goes from 855 theaters to at least 2,600. On Monday it was the No. 1 movie in the country.

Clayface still has no Rotten Tomatoes score: its review embargo lifts at 3 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, October 21. Meanwhile LAIKA's Wildwood is still perfect, Taika Waititi has the worst reviews of his career, and Ali G is back for one weekend only. Here is how to spend October 23 to 25.

The big one: Clayface

Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, a Gotham kid turned movie star who is disfigured by a crime boss and takes an experimental treatment that turns his body to living clay. James Watkins (Eden Lake) directs from a script co-written by Mike Flanagan. It is rated R, runs 109 minutes, and starts previews Thursday night.

The buzz has cooled since the October 13 premiere, when Collider's Steven Weintraub called it "hard R and loaded with brutal scenes that really surprised me." Later press screenings ran more mixed, with praise for Harries and the practical effects and complaints that too much of the transformation is computer generated. ComicBookMovie's Josh Wilding, who saw it at a public screening in the UK, posted a 2.5-out-of-5 review to Rotten Tomatoes on Monday calling it "DC's Morbius moment." It was gone by Tuesday, and he says he will repost it when the embargo lifts.

Deadline reads presales from about $18 million to the mid $20 millions, for a film whose budget has been reported at $30 million to $40 million. Supergirl opened to $37.1 million in June. Our Clayface preview has the background, and our DC movies ranked list is where it has to fit.

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The one that could beat it: You Can See Everything

A24's documentary opened to $15.6 million on 855 screens, as we broke down Monday, then made $2.57 million on Monday, ahead of Street Fighter's $1.9 million, for $18.1 million so far. It holds 98 percent across 146 reviews. Deadline's Tuesday headline asked whether Fielder and Holmes can "melt" Clayface.

There is a precedent. In 2006, Borat opened on 837 screens with $26.5 million, went to 2,566 the next weekend, and made more the second time, $28.3 million, per Box Office Mojo. If the Holmes film has not reached your town yet, it probably will Friday. Clear the evening: it runs 2 hours and 54 minutes.

The safe ticket: Wildwood

LAIKA's first feature since 2019 is still at 100 percent, now across 44 reviews with an 8.5 average, and verified audiences give it 98. As Tuesday's review laid out, it is gorgeous, it runs 132 minutes, and its PG-13 is earned, with bloody fantasy violence and suicide-related material. Older kids and adults who love Coraline should go; families with little ones should think twice. Forecasts put the opening at just $6 million to $10 million, so see it in a theater while you can.

Also opening

Klara and the Sun

Waititi adapts Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel with Jenna Ortega as Klara, a solar-powered robot companion bought for a sick girl named Josie (Mia Tharia), and Amy Adams as Josie's mother. It sits at 24 percent across 21 reviews; his previous low was Next Goal Wins at 46. The common complaint is that Waititi's jokes fight the book's quiet sadness, and Screen Rant's Ben Gibbons says it is "missing the heart that it desperately needs." The common compliment is Ortega. PG-13, 116 minutes. Wait for streaming.

Wicker

The weekend's oddest well-reviewed release is a romance about a man made of sticks. Olivia Colman plays a lonely, mocked fisherwoman who commissions a husband from the village basket weaver (Peter Dinklage), and Alexander Skarsgård is the husband. Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer's Sundance fable holds 94 percent across 49 reviews. Critics call it bawdy, and it is rated R. It opens in limited release Friday and is set to go nationwide October 30.

Ali G: Who Iz I?

Sacha Baron Cohen directs for the first time and brings back the character he last played on film in Ali G Indahouse in 2002. Activists have called Ali G a racist caricature, and The Hollywood Reporter reported that a campaign sent theaters 37,000 emails urging them not to book it. Cohen answered with an essay in Time calling the character outdated and problematic, and saying that is exactly why he brought him back. Amazon MGM is playing it for one weekend only, with no Prime Video date announced and no reviews counted as of Wednesday morning. Rated R, 88 minutes. Check local listings first.

The couch picks

The Invite (HBO Max, Friday). Olivia Wilde directs and stars with Seth Rogen as a couple whose marriage is fraying, who invite their upstairs neighbors (Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton) down for dinner. It holds 96 percent across 293 reviews, and HBO airs it Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Moana (Disney+, streaming now). Disney's live-action remake arrived Wednesday. Critics were cool at 33 percent, audiences warm at 87. It made $323.8 million worldwide on a reported $250 million budget, against $690.9 million for the 2016 animated original. Watch both and see where the original sits on our Disney movies ranked list.

Nobody Wants This, season 3 (Netflix, Thursday). All 10 episodes drop at once, with Kristen Bell and Adam Brody back as Joanne and Noah. Then put it on your TV show tier list.

Then keep score. Add each one to Shortlist and rank it head to head against the movies you already love, two at a time, until the list builds itself. Does Clayface beat Supergirl? Does a documentary beat both? Our movie tier list guide shows how.

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