Category: Documentary
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You Can See Everything: The Dark Side of Believing in Yourself
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. You Can See Everything (2026) Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim It truly seems like every new October film is hell-bent on making me eat my words about Wildwood being the best release of the month. I watched the first few episodes of The Dropout when it came out, but beyond that, I knew nothing about Elizabeth Holmes or Theranos. I also hadn’t seen any other piece of…
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Cookie Queens: Who Run the World? Girls!
Cookie Queens (2026) Alysa Nahmias Having already seen One Night Only earlier in the week, I wasn’t anticipating heading to the theater this weekend, but Instagram decided to throw an incoming banger onto my feed. I drove to the west side of Fort Worth at 11:00am for the Girl Scout Cookies documentary (of course today was the one day that I was asked by a Cinemark employee which movie I was seeing,…
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The AI Doc: It’s the End of the World As We Know It
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell As I’ve expanded my film history knowledge, I’ve learned that there was a bygone time when theatrical releases for documentaries were commonplace. What happened? I mean, I know what happened, but we should get back to that. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist may be as good a place as any…
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Little Gold Man Watch — My Thoughts on the 2026 Oscars Documentary Short Film Nominees
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. If you’re a frequent reader of Nate at the Movies, you know that I’ve been on my second-ever Oscars Death Race over the last month-plus. That race is coming to a close pretty quickly here, with just a few weeks until the Oscars, and now with all five Documentary Short Film nominees in the rearview, I can finally share my thoughts on them with you! I…
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert: An Electric Return to the Big Screen
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Baz Luhrmann Even with my various film checklists to work on, from Star Wars and Marvel to the Oscars Death Race, this weekend was still looking pretty bare. I didn’t care about Scream 7, so instead I took a swing on EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which had been getting good enough reviews for me to consider. I remember enjoying Elvis back in 2022, and if this doc…
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Diane Warren: Relentless: Chasing the Oscar At All Costs
Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) Bess Kargman After a weekend of new releases, I got back on the Oscars Death Race grind, and I’m actually pretty close to the end already. Before tonight, I only had five feature films left, and now that number is just four! I wasn’t exactly looking forward to Diane Warren: Relentless, but of the three films that I could watch from home, it was the shortest, so…
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Disneyland Handcrafted: Can I Get a Season Pass for a Documentary?
Disneyland Handcrafted (2026) Leslie Iwerks I know I’ve lambasted my recent documentary binging in preparation for the Oscars, so it doesn’t make sense that I’d willingly subject myself to yet another documentary, but when it’s about Disney, I’m all Mickey Mouse ears. The allure of colorized 50s footage of Disneyland was enough to get me to sit down for Disneyland Handcrafted two and a half hours before Super Bowl LX, and while…
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Viva Verdi!: One of These Noms is Not Like the Other
Viva Verdi! (2024) Yvonne Russo When the Oscar nominations came out last week, I was shocked to not see either original song from Wicked: For Good on there. I was even more shocked to see a song that I had never heard of from a film I had never heard of. I paid a pretty penny—1,500 of them, to be exact—to sit through Viva Verdi! today, and though I’m an admirer of Verdi (we…
