‘You Can See Everything,’ a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, has been released in theaters.

‘You Can See Everything,’ a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, was released in theaters across the United States on October 16. The film, which runs for approximately three hours, focuses on the 34-day period in Elizabeth Holmes’s life just before she reported to a federal prison in May 2023 to serve her sentence for fraud.

The project was filmed over the course of three years, largely in secret. It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September, where attendees were required to secure their phones in special pouches before entering the theater.

The film is being distributed by A24. This marks Nathan Fielder’s debut as a director of a feature-length film. He co-directed the project with Lance Oppenheim, who is known for previous works such as ‘Some Kind of Heaven’ and ‘Primetime.’

An Unexpected Premiere and Immediate Buzz

The film’s existence was revealed in early September through a teaser trailer, coinciding with the Telluride screening. The clip features a tense, close-up exchange between Fielder and Holmes.

In the teaser, Holmes says, “Why would I deceive you? I have no reason to do that.”

Fielder asks, “Are you being truly honest right now?”

Holmes replies, “I am always honest.”

Following the Telluride premiere, the film received highly positive reviews from critics. Currently, the film holds a 100% score on ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ and a 97 on ‘Metacritic’—a reception described as “universal acclaim.”

‘The Guardian’ has called it a “modern masterpiece of deceit,” while ‘Variety’ magazine describes it as a “psychodrama” that uniquely blends reality TV with a “hangout movie” (a film centered on casual, naturalistic interactions).

What does the film feature?

In April 2023, Holmes invited Fielder, Oppenheim, and their small team to her home in San Diego, where she was living with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two young children. Holmes told the filmmakers that she wanted to demonstrate “radical transparency.”

The film captures some highly private and, at times, unsettling moments. In the early part of the documentary, Holmes is seen undergoing over 200 scans of her own body. She and Evans planned for these scans to be used for a new healthcare startup while she was in prison. During this process, she breaks down in tears, remarking, “I’ve had a strange experience with being on camera.”

The documentary also includes a scene of Evans in the shower; this sequence is the reason the film received an ‘R’ rating (for adults), as it contains explicit nudity.

Fielder repeatedly presses Holmes with direct questions regarding her crimes of deception. At one point, he says to her, “There is a great deal of evidence suggesting that you defrauded investors, and also misled regulatory bodies, the public, and patients.”

Throughout this, Holmes maintains her innocence. She asks Fielder, “The world believes a version of reality about me that isn’t true. So, what is the actual reality?”

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Differing Perspectives and a Major Turning Point

This documentary departs significantly from the style of traditional nonfiction films. Fielder himself moves into the guest house on Holmes’s property. He appears on camera, accompanied by a film crew and boom microphones (sound-recording equipment). The film incorporates reenactments of certain events, blurring the line between observation and performance.

Around the middle of the film, there is a major turning point: Fielder hires actress Amanda Seyfried. Seyfried had previously portrayed Holmes in the Hulu series *The Dropout*—a role for which she won an Emmy Award. Here, she steps into the role of Holmes once again, while Christopher Abbott appears as Billy Evans.

In one scene, Seyfried and Fielder watch footage of Holmes’s reactions from *The Dropout*. Later, during a dinner, Seyfried and Fielder question Evans directly. Since cameras are not permitted inside the prison, Seyfried reenacts a visit that took place there, based on Fielder’s recollections.

During a Q&A session following the film’s screening, Fielder remarked that he still hasn’t fully grasped the true meaning of the experience. He said, “Even today, I am trying to understand exactly what I went through. I am very glad that this film is being released; perhaps the audience will help me make sense of my experience. To be honest, I still don’t fully know what I went through.” An atmosphere of suspicion on set.

Fielder and Oppenheim revealed that filming at Holmes’s home created an atmosphere of suspicion among the crew. Fielder was staying in a guest house on the property, and he feared that surveillance equipment might have been installed there.

“In the final stages of the process, we felt that Billy was trying to exert too much control over it,” Fielder said. “This created something of a barrier in our communication.”

Holmes is currently serving her sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. In 2022, after being found guilty on four counts of fraud, she was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison. She began her incarceration in May 2023.

According to a report by ABC News, Holmes is scheduled to be moved to a halfway house in Austin, Texas, in August 2027. Due to good behavior and the judge’s ruling, her current scheduled release date is February 22, 2030.

The film was released in theaters across the United States on October 16. It is set to be released in the United Kingdom on November 20.