SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court on Oct. 17, 2022, in San Jose, California. Holmes appeared in federal court related to an attempt to overturn her fraud conviction. She is facing jail time after being convicted of four counts of fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors in her company Theranos, which offered blood testing lab services. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything has earned a perfect Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score ahead of the film’s release in theaters on Friday.
Directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, You Can See Everything won raves after a secret screening of the film at the Telluride Film Festival on Sept. 6. According to A24, the documentary chronicles a “mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss” surrounding the disgraced Theranos founder.
Holmes was sentenced in November 2022 to serve 11 years behind bars for defrauding Theranos investors of hundreds of millions of dollars. Thirty-four days before she was scheduled to begin her prison sentence, Holmes invited Fielder (Nathan for You, The Rehearsal), Oppenheim and their film crew to document her every move.
Currently, You Can See Everything has a 100% “fresh” critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer based on 22 reviews. RT’s Critics Consensus, Audience Summary and Popcornmeter score based on verified user ratings are still pending.
You Can See Everything marks the second documentary about Holmes. In 2019, Alex Gibney released The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, which earned a 78% “fresh” critics’ score on RT based on 60 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus for the film reads, “Alex Gibney’s The Inventor declines to outright condemn the actions by Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, but instead provides a comprehensive overview of the scandal that allows viewers to mull over its implications towards the broader Silicon Valley.”
In addition, Hulu produced the dramatized limited series The Dropout in 2022, starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes. In addition to scoring a 90% “fresh” critics’ score on RT, The Dropout earned Seyfried a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. The Dropout earned five other Emmy nominations, including a nod for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
RT’s Critics Consensus for the miniseries reads, “The Dropout succeeds more as a docudrama than a dark comedy, but Amanda Seyfried’s disquieting portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes brings fresh blood to this retelling of recent history.”
What Are Individual Critics Saying About ‘You Can See Everything’?
Owen Gleiberman of Variety is among the top critics on RT to award You Can See Everything a “fresh” score. Gleiberman writes in his RT review summary, “It’s a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus. Yet it’s been made with a spirit of true inquiry, driven by Fielder’s acidly quizzical personality, and it gets its hooks in you.”
In her review summary of the film on RT, Angie Han of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “What 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.”
Nick Schager of The Daily Beast sings high praises of You Can See Everything on RT, writing that it’s “not just the film of the year — it’s a documentary that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the form’s all-time greats.”
David Fear of Rolling Stone also lauds You Can See Everything, writing on RT, “You will likely have no idea what you have just seen, besides that it’s simply, unabashedly, unashamedly brilliant.”
Kristy Puchko of Mashable also celebrates the Elizabeth Holmes documentary, writing on RT, “You Can See Everything is a masterwork of interrogation, not only of the whole Holmes situation but of documentary as a form itself.”
Giving the documentary a perfect 5 out of 5 critic score, the Guardian critic Adrian Horton writes on RT, “There is something extremely satisfying in watching Fielder’s sharp angles tangle with Holmes’s disposition of guileless warmth, a strange and compelling chemistry building within a reality distortion field.”
Rated R, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything opens in theaters nationwide on Friday.
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