Nathan Fielder's Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit

You Can See Everything is a three-hour documentary co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim that embeds a film crew inside Elizabeth Holmes’s domestic life in 2023 as she and her partner Billy Evans, awaiting her prison sentence, attempt to contest her public image and potentially reboot. The project began with an intentional provocation - an intense, close-up moment between Fielder and Holmes that went viral - and premiered at the New York Film Festival. Holmes and Evans invited access under the claim that proximity would reveal who she "really" is; the film, out in the US on 16 October, answers that invitation with radical intimacy rather than straightforward exoneration.

Shot like a thriller and scored like drama, the film pairs Oppenheim’s hyper-saturated, tight-framed visual style with Fielder’s confrontational, meta-comedic techniques to create a hall of psychological mirrors. Scenes of domestic mundanity become tests of performance, trust and deceit as Fielder needles Holmes and Evans with blunt questions and observational set pieces expose fissures in motive and persona. The result is twisty and destabilizing: it reveals far more private detail than expected and interrogates who is playing whom, yet it resists delivering a definitive truth, making the work itself a daring study of manipulation and image-making.