The most consequential premiere of this fall festival season did not happen in Venice or Toronto. It arrived in Telluride on a Sunday night, in a theater where security patrolled the aisles in night vision goggles and attendees surrendered their phones to locked pouches before finding their seats.
"You Can See Everything" is the new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, distributed by A24. Beginning 34 days before Elizabeth Holmes enters federal prison, the film then spans three years of access to the notorious Theranos founder. Its existence was kept entirely secret throughout production. Fielder, known for "Nathan for You" and HBO's "The Rehearsal," takes a starring role as the film's interviewer. Oppenheim, whose work includes "Some Kind of Heaven" and HBO's "Ren Faire," built the documentary's observational structure around him. The runtime is 174 minutes.
Holmes was convicted in 2022 of defrauding investors in Theranos and entered federal prison in May 2023 to serve a sentence of more than eleven years.
Early reviews described a film that keeps escalating in strangeness as it spans those three years. A24 is releasing it theatrically on October 16. While Venice and TIFF have commanded most of the critical attention this September, "You Can See Everything" landed in Telluride with the kind of force that reshapes the Oscar conversation. It is the year's most audacious documentary, and it has gone largely unreported outside of trade coverage.