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Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Dominates Box Office and Debate

The A24 film’s wide October release has reignited questions about documentary truth, subject access and who controls a real-life story.

Overview

  • You Can See Everything opened in October to strong box-office returns and broad critical praise, making it a major commercial success for a feature documentary.
  • Directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim spent extended time embedded in Holmes’s life, with Fielder living on-site for roughly 34 days while filming her final weeks before prison.
  • The film uses staged reenactments that feature Amanda Seyfried, whose on-camera involvement the directors say was arranged with help from Emma Stone.
  • Critics and commentators have focused on ethical questions raised by the film, including how filmmaker intervention, subject access and reenactment can shape or obscure factual accountability for Theranos’ harms.
  • Nathan Fielder says he spoke with Holmes after post-production and that she told him, “I trust you,” a personal detail that has fueled discussion about subject control and filmmaker responsibility.