Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s “You Can See Everything” has captured the zeitgeist like few documentaries ever have. Brilliant, frequently hilarious, shocking, and deeply disconcerting, the film has become one of the year’s biggest cinematic talking points, a mind-bending examination of deception, manipulation, and the elusive nature of truth. Audiences have responded in extraordinary numbers, too. As our box office report noted, the three-hour A24 documentary grossed a stunning $15 million in its opening weekend, delivering one of the biggest documentary debuts in history.
The enthusiasm is understandable. Our Telluride review called the film “a remarkable and at times brilliant piece of filmmaking,” praising its astonishing revelations and the fascinating questions it raises about its central subject. What initially appears to be an intimate portrait of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the days before her imprisonment gradually transforms into something far stranger, with Fielder’s trademark discomfort and deadpan humor giving way to a genuinely unnerving psychological thriller.
As we observed in our New York Film Festival Q&A recap, the documentary is “a breathtaking inquisition into truth, intention, meaning, sincerity, and the enormous gulf that can exist between what people...
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