General [SPOILER ALERT] for everyone; just trust when I say this is so far the best movie of 2026, and on my personal short list of best documentaries I’ve ever seen.
You Can See Everything is the pinnacle of the Nathan Fielder experience. I’ve watched his ascension with fascination and mostly excitement, as our modern day Andy Kaufman dives deeper and deeper into the depths of the human mind. His unstoppable force meets an immovable object in the form of Elizabeth Holmen in his and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary, delivering in every way possible in a way documentaries haven’t really attempted since the very first ones in the 1920s.
For those who haven’t followed tech news or have a Hulu Subscription, Elizabeth Holmes was the co-founder of Theranos, a biotech company that claimed to do cheap sustainable blood testing with a magic device. But that device was not real, and Holmes was found guilty of deceiving the shareholders and sentenced to 11 years in prison. Unbeknownst to anyone, Holmes and her partner Billy Evans invited Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into their home to film Holmes’s last 34 days as a free woman. She hopes this radical transparency garners greater understanding of her and clears her in the public eye, while Nathan, an incredible bullsh*t detector, likely hopes to extract from that unblinking soft exterior some real remorse for her crimes.
If You Can See Everything were just the first 90 minutes battle of wills between Fielder and Holmes, it would be one of the most exciting movies of the year. I was tantalized like everyone else how this battle of wills was going to go. Right off the bat, Fielder’s screwing with us: he frames himself like a devious interloper, using ominous music to showcase his own weird presence in this house where a family should be enjoying their time alone. And so the interrogation begins. There’s certainly some questioning of Holmes’s “transparency,” rightfully so. As well as the stupendous Fielder reaction shots/quotes. “I know how you feel”. “No you don’t!” got the biggest laugh, but many more hit the same funny bone. And just as I suspected from a Nathan Fielder project, we go deeper, and in weirder directions. There’s an Abbott and Costello sequence that really throws our thoughts and feelings up in the air. And a shocking amount of time spent with Billy Evans, Holmes’s boyfriend who I thought would be a fly on the wall, but he VERY much isn’t. You can’t see everything after the first half of the film, but you do feel like you learn something about Elizabeth Holmes and how she operates, and end up wishing Fielder had more than 34 days so we could really get to the bottom of what makes her and the world around her tick.
But this is a 3 hour documentary, so we get a flash to “Two Years Later”, but are basically in Nathan’s creative hands and mind at this point. With zero expectations is where Nathan is most exciting, and he proves so with where he takes You Can See Everything. I won’t spoil even with the spoiler alert at the beginning because of how delicious it all is. But suffice to say, with Elizabeth in prison, Nathan needs some new “characters” in his documentary. Who gets brought in elicited gasps in my theater initially…but good gasps, because the subject of the documentary now shifts to something else entirely. Where Nathan and Lance take the documentary covers all sorts of themes he set up with his first half: the nature of truth, specificity of a relationship, projection, the fallacy of total objectivity, Nathan tries to leave no stone unturned. In addition, he shifts the focus in a way that makes the doc much more intense than I ever expected it to be, with some confrontations I could barely hear pin drops during because of how focused in the audience was at what they were seeing. By the end of You Can See Everything, I certainly felt like I was wiped out from all that I saw; it wasn’t everything, but it was…something….real? Certainly entertaining, definitely thought provoking, but something a documentary hasn’t dared to try in a long time, maybe ever.
Nanook of the North. The Thin Blue Line. Hoop Dreams. Bowling for Columbine. Citizenfour. And now, You Can See Everything is the latest documentary to dare to push the genre to greater heights. Here’s hoping it becomes the first doc nominated for best picture: it’s that good. Get a Dumb Starbucks and go out and see this one, ASAP.