→ Deception. Reduce the documentary to its elementary parts and you’ll find a study of the way human beings lie to and believe in each other.

→ Hard questions. The sorts of questions without satisfying answers. The disquieting, underneath-the-surface stuff that we have a hard time talking about.

→ Giant faces and bobbleheads. The gargantuan, tormented expressions of Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans, and Nathan Fielder will live rent-free in your mind for a long, long time. And Elizabeth Holmes nods a lot. Like, uh. Like a bobblehead.

→ Meta-humor. A staple of Nathan Fielder’s work (e.g. Nathan For You, The Rehearsal).

Every so often, a film comes along and shatters the expectations that came with it, like the truth in the hands of an aspiring tech mogul. The film, it becomes what everyone is talking about, the thing of the moment, the thing you have to see.

You Can See Everything is one of those films. And, in your author’s opinion, it is a genuine masterpiece. It’s startling, inventive, brilliantly shot, and very, very funny.

See it in theaters and for nearly three hours, you will experience profound discomfort as Nathan Fielder, ever-unflinching, asks Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans all the questions you want the answers to.

Try as you might to diagnose their micro-expressions on each of their giant faces, but I’m not sure that’s the point. This film isn’t about courting melodramatic confessions of wrongdoing. Instead of these sorts of answers, Fielder is confronted with fundamental truths far more unsettling and every bit as fascinating.

This is what will give Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything a far longer shelf life than your typical of-the-times documentary. The deeply disquieting truth. The fact that Elizabeth Holmes, albeit more brazen, is far from the only person in the room who lies to themselves and others in the pursuit of survival, comfort, wealth or something in between. The fact that you can’t see everything, even if you’re willing to go Nathan Fielder lengths to uncover the truth.

By forcing us to reckon with this, Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder have created a truly timeless work.

A fact or two about the production that makes you say "oh, neat."

→ The project was sparked at a magic show. Friends Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim attended together. “A magician there asked for a celebrity’s name, and someone called out ‘Elizabeth Holmes’,” Oppenheim said. “I was like, so interesting. Elizabeth Holmes.” He said he “had just heard that she was looking for someone to document her life and that she had reached out to A24.”

→ Oppenheim and Fielder kept the film a secret for three years. It was revealed at a surprise screening at the Telluride Film Festival on September 6, 2026. “Part of how we pulled it off was working with a very small crew, about seven or eight people,” Oppenheim said.

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