You Can See Everything: What We Know About Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

By CreativeQuizzes Editorial Team

A documentary that was a secret until it wasn't

For a film that premiered under total secrecy, You Can See Everything has managed to become one of the most talked-about titles of the fall movie season in a matter of weeks. A24 dropped the full-length trailer this week, and it's already doing the thing this project has done at every stage so far: making people deeply, visibly uncomfortable.

The film comes from Nathan Fielder, the deadpan mind behind Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, working alongside documentarian Lance Oppenheim. Its subject is Elizabeth Holmes — the disgraced Theranos founder currently serving an 11-year federal sentence for fraud — in the weeks immediately surrounding her surrender to prison.

How it premiered without anyone knowing what they were watching

The film's existence was kept under wraps until its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in early September, where it screened as a surprise, unannounced entry. Attendees didn't know what they were about to see and had to surrender their phones beforehand to keep the film from leaking — an unusually cloak-and-dagger rollout for a documentary, though not out of character for Fielder, whose past work has built its reputation partly on audiences not knowing what they're walking into.

That secrecy paid off in buzz. The reaction out of Telluride was immediate and intense, and A24 acquired the film shortly after.

What's actually in the trailer

The first teaser, released the day of the Telluride premiere, was almost aggressively minimal: under a minute and a half long, showing a single unbroken scene of Fielder and Holmes locked in a tense, wordless exchange — Holmes staring him down, Fielder visibly rattled. It still racked up more than five million views in three days, which tells you something about how much curiosity there is around this project.

The full trailer released this week goes further, giving a clearer sense of the film's shape: Fielder embedded with Holmes and her family, including her partner Billy Evans, in the run-up to her prison sentence, and the documentary reportedly follows her into her first weeks of incarceration as well. It's a strange, off-kilter watch — critics have already described it as unsettling, confusing, and "skin-crawling" in places, particularly around Evans's on-camera presence.

Why critics are already calling it an awards contender

Early reviews out of Telluride have been close to unanimous. The film currently holds a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from its first ten reviews, and Metacritic has it at 95 out of 100 — the kind of consensus that gets a documentary taken seriously in the crowded fall Oscar conversation well before wide release.

Variety's Owen Gleiberman described it as a genre unto itself — a hybrid of reality television, performance, and psychological study that blurs the line between documentation and manipulation. Other critics have zeroed in on the strangeness of Fielder's access: he doesn't just observe Holmes, he becomes a character inside her story, which is very much the same trick that made The Rehearsal so divisive and so acclaimed.

When and where to see it

You Can See Everything runs 174 minutes and will screen as part of the New York Film Festival's Spotlight lineup on September 30, ahead of its wide theatrical release. A24 has set the film to open in select theaters starting October 1, with a full nationwide rollout on October 16, 2026.

For a documentary that started life as a secret screening nobody was told about, it's a fast turnaround into one of the season's most anticipated releases — and given the reaction to a single minute-and-a-half clip, the full 174-minute version is likely to generate plenty more of the same discomfort, discourse, and awards buzz once it actually opens.