7.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Documentary • 2026 • 90 min
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2026)
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2026)
Overview
Actor Ben McKenzie turns investigative journalist to examine the cryptocurrency industry, tracing how celebrities, influencers, and politicians have fueled speculative markets with real consequences for ordinary people. Co-directed with Giorgio Angelini, the documentary arrives at a Mixed label because its two main signals point in different directions. The political framing leans left: skepticism of loosely regulated financial markets, consumer harm, and the costs of unchecked capitalist hype all fit comfortably in a progressive critique. Pulling the other way, the social values register as broadly traditional, with McKenzie appearing as a straight married father investigating fraud rather than advancing any identity-driven agenda. The result is a politically aware but personally conventional documentary.
Starring Cast
Morena Baccarin
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.8
Overview
Actor Ben McKenzie turns investigative journalist to examine the cryptocurrency industry, tracing how celebrities, influencers, and politicians have fueled speculative markets with real consequences for ordinary people. Co-directed with Giorgio Angelini, the documentary arrives at a Mixed label because its two main signals point in different directions. The political framing leans left: skepticism of loosely regulated financial markets, consumer harm, and the costs of unchecked capitalist hype all fit comfortably in a progressive critique. Pulling the other way, the social values register as broadly traditional, with McKenzie appearing as a straight married father investigating fraud rather than advancing any identity-driven agenda. The result is a politically aware but personally conventional documentary.
Starring Cast
Morena Baccarin
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: Medium
The film's central subject is a sustained investigative critique of the cryptocurrency industry as driven by hype, fraud, and speculation that harms ordinary people, with the narrative championing awareness and caution over unchecked financial innovation. This problem/solution framing anchors the rating in a left-leaning skepticism of unregulated capitalist excess.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
The film is a documentary in which Ben McKenzie investigates the cryptocurrency industry, its hype, and associated fraud. It features real participants from the sector and McKenzie's personal life without any fictional character casting or identity-based narrative framing.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The film is a documentary focused on cryptocurrency fraud and hype, with the director's real-life marriage and young children appearing only peripherally as personal context for his investigation; no narrative arcs, themes, or depictions center on family structures, roles, parenting, or values.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
This documentary examines the cryptocurrency industry through an investigative lens with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
This documentary examines cryptocurrency fraud, hype, and market manipulation through interviews and reporting, with no transgender characters or themes present.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Documentary exploring cryptocurrency featuring real people including director Ben McKenzie and his wife Morena Baccarin; no fictional characters or adaptations with established genders.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
This is a documentary film examining the cryptocurrency industry through real-world interviews and reporting. It features actual individuals appearing as themselves with no fictional characters, adaptations, or historical figures recast across racial lines.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.3
N/A
Critic Ratings
N/A
7.2
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