A24 has released a new trailer for “You Can See Everything,” the Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. The 174-minute film follows Holmes through her final days of freedom and her first weeks in prison, and it arrives in theaters on Oct. 16 after a packed premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.
The trailer shows Fielder living alongside Holmes, bringing her to tears and questioning her husband on camera. The film is already one of the most talked-about titles of awards season.
What Is ‘You Can See Everything’ About?
“You Can See Everything” is a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the Silicon Valley founder convicted of fraud over Theranos. It picks up 34 days before she reported to prison and continues into her first weeks behind bars.
The Official Logline
“Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”
In other words, a short-term portrait grows into a three-year project that takes the filmmakers somewhere much stranger than they expected.
Who Made the Film?
The documentary is directed by Nathan Fielder, the comedian and filmmaker known for his deadpan on-screen persona, and Lance Oppenheim. A24 is distributing the film, which was kept tightly under wraps before its festival debut.
What the New Trailer Reveals
The new trailer offers the clearest look yet at how Fielder approached his subject. It shows him living with Holmes, a conversation that leaves her crying, and a tense interrogation of her husband.
The First Teaser: ‘I Don’t Have Anything to Deceive You On’
The new footage follows a minute-long teaser released after the Telluride premiere, alongside the Oct. 16 release date announcement. That teaser revealed very little, showing Fielder and Holmes locked in an intense stare as she insists she is being genuine.
“I don’t have anything to deceive you on. Of course I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that.” — Elizabeth Holmes
The exchange sets up the film’s central question: how much of what Holmes presents to the camera can be trusted.
Telluride Premiere and First Reactions
“You Can See Everything” premiered to a full house at the Telluride Film Festival, where early reactions quickly pushed it into the awards conversation.
Owen Gleiberman: ‘It Gets Its Hooks in You’
Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman, who saw the film at the festival, called it “a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus.” He added that it has “been made with a spirit of true inquiry, driven by Fielder’s acidly quizzical personality,” and that “it gets its hooks in you.”
Gleiberman also compared Fielder’s on-screen interviewing style to that of Steven Wright, saying he has “the most drop-dead deadpan” since the comedian.
Clayton Davis: Audiences Left ‘Shell-Shocked’
Variety’s Clayton Davis said the film “keeps escalating in strangeness across its three-year span and lands a final movement that had Telluride’s most seasoned attendees walking out shell-shocked.”
According to Davis, “‘Wild’ and ‘WTF?’ were the words circulating on the gondola line, and they were compliments.”
‘You Can See Everything’ at a Glance
- Title: You Can See Everything
- Directors: Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim
- Subject: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes
- Distributor: A24
- Runtime: 174 minutes
- Premiere: Telluride Film Festival
- Release date: 16
- Time span covered: Three years, starting 34 days before Holmes entered prison
Why This Documentary Matters
Elizabeth Holmes remains one of the best-known figures of Silicon Valley’s startup era, and her story has been told many times. What sets “You Can See Everything” apart is its access: Holmes herself invited the film crew in during her last weeks of freedom.
Pairing that access with Fielder’s famously unreadable interviewing style has produced something critics describe as part documentary, part reality TV and part psychological drama. With a nearly three-hour runtime and a finale that stunned Telluride, the film is set up as one of the season’s must-see releases when it reaches theaters on Oct. 16.
