Elizabeth Holmes sheds a tear in the full trailer for You Can See Everything, the documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim that A24 released on Wednesday. You can see everything from the inside of the project now points toward a short festival run before the film reaches theaters on Oct. 16.
Four years in secret
The project was made in secret over four years, and that scale shows in how much the trailer withholds while still widening the frame. The film will debut in the New York Film Fest Spotlight Lineup on Sept. 30, after a surprise world premiere at Telluride, giving the rollout a festival-to-theater path that is increasingly common for prestige nonfiction work.
Holmes sits at the center of the film as the disgraced Theranos founder. Theranos was founded in 2003, reached a $9 billion valuation, and dissolved in 2018 after The Edison could never reliably do what Holmes claimed it could do.
Billy Evans and prison
The trailer also folds Billy Evans into the story, extending the documentary beyond a standard rise-and-fall account. Holmes had continued to profess her innocence alongside Evans before being hauled off to prison to serve an 11-year sentence, and that contradiction is built into the film’s premise rather than tucked away from it.
Angie Han wrote out of Telluride that the film “begins as a fascinatingly intimate portrait of a deluded or disingenuous scammer reveals as something even wilder, more ambitious and less predictable, until we’re left to ponder what value a personal truth has at all.” She also wrote, “Its abrupt turns are so deliciously surprising I’m loath to give away too much detail,” and added, “But I’ll say broadly that it gets excitingly meta and almost surreal in confronting the fact that Holmes is now in prison, and therefore unable to speak for herself in any length or depth.”
Sept. 30 and Oct. 16
For viewers, the practical takeaway is simple: the film is now on a fixed public path, first at New York Film Fest Spotlight Lineup on Sept. 30 and then in theaters on Oct. 16. The trailer suggests A24 is selling access as much as information here, which fits a documentary built around a subject who still insists on her own version of the Theranos story.
The sharper question is what the film can reveal beyond Holmes’s narrative when the subject herself is limited in what she can say on camera. If You Can See Everything has any real edge, it will come from how Fielder and Oppenheim use that limitation, not from repeating the fraud case everyone already knows.
