“You Can See Everything” might be the year’s best movie — but who’s fooling who in it?

The king of awkward questions, Nathan Fielder, meets the queen of evasive answers, Elizabeth Holmes, in the “radical transparency” documentary “You Can See Everything.”

You Can See Everything

Documentary featuring Nathan Fielder, Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans and a player to be named later. Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Now playing everywhere. 175 minutes. 14A

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (out of 4)

Peter Howell

Movie Critic

Nathan Fielder’s relentless scrutiny confronts Elizabeth Holmes’ intense narrative control in the hybrid documentary “You Can See Everything,” and the collision makes for not just the year’s best doc, but possibly the best movie of 2026.

Canadian comic provocateur Fielder, co-directing with Lance Oppenheim (“Primetime”), takes on U.S. tech fraudster Holmes in a series of close encounters described as “radical transparency.” It feels at times more like watching open-heart surgery.

The film is a brilliant demonstration of cinema’s power not merely to record an encounter but to reshape our understanding of it. A close-up becomes an interrogation. A domestic gesture becomes a possible clue. We begin questioning the evidence of our own eyes.

Viewers are expected to know the basic details of the Theranos blood-testing scandal behind the story. The question here isn’t whether Holmes committed fraud — she was convicted of it — but what to believe about the encounter unfolding before us, and who is controlling it.

Made largely in secret over three years, running nearly three hours and packed with scenes and statements both revelatory and baffling, the film’s very existence is a wonder. Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, heir of the luxury Evans Hotel group, opened their beachside California home to the filmmakers and a documentary crew with the promise of an intimate look at their family life, which also includes caring for two small children. Filming commenced just 34 days before Holmes began serving her prison sentence for defrauding Theranos investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

This is the same Holmes, a notorious control freak, who hadn’t sat for a press interview since 2016, a year after the Wall Street Journal began publishing articles revealing that Theranos, the Silicon Valley start-up she launched at age 19, lacked the technology to do myriad lab tests with a single drop of blood, its signature selling point. Along with being handed stiff jail sentences, the courts ordered Holmes and her former business and romantic partner, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, to pay $452 million (U.S.) back to investors.

Yet Holmes, staring directly at laconic interviewer Fielder with eyes like blue marbles, insists she did nothing wrong, and that she’s never knowingly told a lie in her life: “The world believes a reality about me that isn’t true.”

LINK TO FULL REVIEW: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/you-can-see-everything-documentary/article_faed79c8-8d84-455f-897d-e46c841d1836.html