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The president is roaming the country in a frantic and possibly self-defeating quest to save Republicans as his party braces for a wipeout. A new kind of campaigning is on the rise, but there are still some old-fashioned battles raging from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the stark plains of Texas.
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In the age of vertical video, political messaging lands in bite-size clips. No Democrat is thriving in this new world quite like Jon Ossoff, the young senator from Georgia. Maybe 2028 has already started.
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VF X LETTERBOXD: MOVIE OF THE WEEK
The pair told a packed house on Wednesday that they’re still recovering: “Just literally, the laws of reality and everything we thought was going on outside just evaporated.” Below, check out VF’s favorite Letterboxd reviews from You Can See Everything.
VF'S PICKS FROM LETTERBOXD
Sydney🚀
Watched Oct 7, 2026Whatever you are expecting, multiply it by ten and divide it by the square root of The Fielder Method and you still won’t even be in the ballpark
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Erik 🎼
Watched Sep 6, 2026Sometimes you go to the secret Telluride screening and get surprised with the best film of the year.Sometimes the best film of the year is also the best documentary you’ve ever seen.Sometimes the best documentary you’ve ever seen is also the most batshit insane stylistically precise psychologically nuclear 3 hour masterpiece game of chess you’ve ever watched.Sometimes Emma Stone shows up to moderate a Q&A.Anything can happen at Telluride.“Do you understand why that’s funny?”
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David Chen
Watched Oct 12, 2026YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is one of the greatest documentaries ever made. A stunning examination of a master manipulator BY a master manipulator. What starts as a fairly standard biographical portrait expands outwards like a fractal, engulfing so many people and ideas that by the time it reaches its conclusion, the results are breathtaking.Above all else, this is a film that will force you to question everything you believe. A staggering work of art.
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Sophia
Watched Sep 6, 2026Made me think about documentary filmmaking in a completely different way
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Zach Shevich
Watched Sep 30, 2026A hilarious, shapeshifting look into the unblinking eyes of an unknowable person. Continues Nathan Fielder’s fascination with artifice & presentation in jaw-dropping, unexpectedly hysterical ways. Beguiling, perplexing, and so, so funny. I wanted it to never end and I’d watch it all again right now.
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matt lynch
Watched Oct 12, 2026A psychological thriller about documentaries. I wish Peter Watkins could see this.
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Paul
Watched Oct 12, 2026Sort of incomparable to most things I’ve seen that aren’t Nathan Fielder shows. It is utterly peculiar as a film and to see Holmes and her family so directly like this. It’s also interesting to see this project morph into so many different things over time. It’s long yeah but the subject matter warrants it as it spirals into something so incredibly complex. It would be fun to write something long-form about this but that would require spoiling such truly surprising stuff. Just incredibly fascinating as a body of work and as an installment in Fielder’s oeuvre. It also looks gorgeous as well with a phenomenal score. Extremely entertaining. I can only really say one thing for sure: Fielder, Oppenheim, and, honestly, Holmes and her family have created a film I’d describe as an optical illusion. It looks like many different things from all angles. The only thing I know for sure is that these are all very weird people.
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toontalks
Watched Oct 12, 2026In real time while watching this i could genuinely feel methods of documentary filmmaking evolve. Forget blurring the lines of reality our world perception and performance, this straight up irradiates them. The sheer amounts of depth this is able to gather in a way most films can only dream of is something that just straight up hasn't been accomplished before and in a way that is truly engrossing to witness. I was fucking glued to my seat for the entirety of this i could've watched 2 more hours. Unreal. The year’s best movie.
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SchnieboJr
Watched Sep 30, 2026Everything was perfect. Mind-blowing. Hysterical. Revelatory. Complex. The best theater experience I’ve ever had. The best documentary I’ve ever seen. Nathan Fielder is a genius. Lance Oppenheim is a genius. One of the best films of not only the decade, but of the century. I have so many thoughts. Wow. Coming out of the theater to see Elizabeth Holmes supporters with a “Free Elizabeth Holmes” truck was the perfect end to a perfect night.
65- Watched Oct 13, 2026
Adam Nayman
Possibly - plausibly - a masterpiece
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