You Can See Everything is a 2026 American documentary film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It follows Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the defunct health technology company Theranos, and her partner Billy Evans, who invite a film crew to document them beginning in the weeks before Holmes began serving a United States federal prison sentence for defrauding investors. The film is Fielder's feature directorial debut.
The film premiered as a secret screening at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival on September 6, 2026. It will be theatrically released by A24 on October 16.
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Premise
Holmes and Evans invite Fielder and Oppenheim to document their lives in the days before Holmes goes to prison, and the filmmakers continue following the couple over the course of three years.
Production
Oppenheim and Fielder first came into contact after Oppenheim learned Fielder had seen his 2020 documentary Some Kind of Heaven; Oppenheim, already a fan of Fielder's, emailed him about it and the two became friends afterward. Meaning to work with one another on a future project, Oppenheim approached Fielder in 2023 about working on a project centered around Elizabeth Holmes, after hearing through a friend that she was looking for someone to document her life. Fielder had read John Carreyrou's 2018 book Bad Blood and thought that the story had already been thoroughly covered in the media, but he became curious about Holmes's perspective following her retreat from the public eye.
Holmes had already reached out to A24 about making a documentary about her prior to Oppenheim and Fielder agreeing to the project. According to Vanity Fair, Holmes was "[convinced] of her own innocence" after having been charged and sentenced for defrauding investors in 2022 and was "utterly certain that everyone else will believe her too, if only she has an opportunity to speak her truth".
In April 2023, Holmes and her partner Billy Evans invited the film crew to live at home with them and their children during the 34 days prior to Holmes beginning her prison sentence. A24 gave the filmmakers permission to pursue the project without a deadline or obligation to turn the footage into a finished film, with the studio saying that if nothing came of the project it could just be scrapped. According to Fielder, they knew they had a compelling story when crew members disagreed about what was happening in the house, saying: "And that's when we really realized, 'Oh, this is really interesting to follow this. We're all smart and we're really working at the top of our intelligence. Why can't we make sense of what's happening in this house?'"
The original plan was for Fielder to remain behind the camera, but the interactions Fielder had with Holmes and Evans were determined to be so strange that it was decided to include them in the film. According to Fielder, the filmmakers' relationship with Evans became negative by the end of filming, with Fielder recounting that "[n]ear the end of filming, Billy [Evans] was trying to exert a level of control over the project that made us uncomfortable, and communication with him sort of broke down because of that".
Fielder and Oppenheim also reached out to several people who knew Holmes or had worked with her, but were unable to get them to participate in the film. Fielder claimed "people did not want to appear in this, or people from the past were just sort of done with her." Actress Amanda Seyfried, who previously portrayed Holmes in the miniseries The Dropout, appears in the documentary both as herself and in role as Holmes.
Release
On September 6, 2026, the film premiered at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival as a secret screening. Attendees were unaware of which film they would be seeing, and were required to surrender their mobile devices to prevent leaked information. That same day, A24 released a teaser trailer and announced that the film would be released in theaters on October 16, 2026. The film was quickly added to the lineup of the 2026 New York Film Festival following the premiere at Telluride, with the screening taking place on September 30, 2026.
It is scheduled for release in United Kingdom and Ireland on November 20, 2026, by A24.
Reception
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 24 reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 97 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
The film's Telluride premiere drew positive early reviews, highlighting the filmmakers' close access to Holmes and Fielder's deadpan role as an on-camera interviewer.
Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman called the film "a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus" and said that it "overlaps reality, performance, deception, and mental illness until it brings you into the enigmatic space where all those things meet". Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised the film and noted how Fielder's role in You Can See Everything differed heavily from his past performances in programs such as Nathan for You, writing that "[n]othing Fielder discovers can top what's already widely known, so his observations inevitably temper [Holmes's] public image. Fielder's portrait of Holmes and his display of his methods turn his questioning to self-questioning, forcing him to assess, and even revise, basic assumptions about her and about life in general ... [f]or all the unpleasantness ... the film is more than fascinating and ingenious; it's strangely, poetically, poignantly beautiful."
Adrian Horton, from The Guardian, wrote that the film "was somehow, more shocking, twistier, thornier and revealing than billed", describing it as a "stupefying and gloriously destabilizing hall of psychological mirrors, a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime collision of director and subject." The Daily Beast's Nick Schager called You Can See Everything "not just the film of the year—it's a documentary that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the form's all-time greats."
