Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
Ben McKenzie / United States, El Salvador & United Kingdom / 2025 / European Premiere / 90 min
If you've bought cryptocurrency in the hope of easy money, you should watch Ben McKenzie's entertaining and eye-opening film, which is to cryptocurrency what ‘The Big Short’ was to the financial crisis.
If you don’t yet know what cryptocurrency means, you may be among the lucky ones. At least if you ask actor and gonzo journalist Ben McKenzie, who has taken a career-defining deep dive into the digital niche of the financial world in an attempt to answer one simple question: Is it all just a scam?
Armed with solid charm and a finely tuned bullshit detector, Ben McKenzie gains incredible access to some of the most prominent crypto quacks, whom he confronts with equal parts humor and hard-hitting facts, even when it costs him dearly. The film’s great strength is that even when the digital web unravels all the way to the White House and a so-called crypto paradise in El Salvador, it never loses its empathetic focus on the human victims of the tech world’s empty promises.