Highlights
- Nathan Fielder secretly filmed Elizabeth Holmes for three years before she reported to federal prison in 2023.
- A24 confiscated every attendee’s phone at Telluride before revealing the secret screening Sunday night.
- Critics at Telluride are calling You Can See Everything one of the most insane documentaries ever made.
Nathan Fielder just detonated the biggest surprise of the Telluride Film Festival, and Elizabeth Holmes let him do it.
For three years, rumors swirled that the Rehearsal mastermind was secretly filming the disgraced Theranos founder. On Sunday night (September 6, 2026), A24 confirmed it. The mystery screening everyone had been guessing about was You Can See Everything, Fielder’s 174-minute documentary co-directed with Lance Oppenheim.
The setup alone is unhinged. Thirty-four days before Holmes reported to federal prison in 2023, she let Fielder and a film crew move into her orbit. Not for an interview. For her life.
Vanity Fair confirmed Fielder actually lived with Holmes and her husband, Billy Evans, while shooting. The outlet described the result as “full of unexpected twists and turns and shocking reveals.”
The teaser doesn’t waste time getting weird. Holmes flatly insists she’s not who people think she is. “I’m not that person,” she tells Fielder. Later, staring her down, he can’t quite believe what he’s hearing. “You’re being real right now?” he asks. She says she is. The camera pulls back. She’s holding her baby.
A24 pulled off the reveal like a heist. Attendees at Telluride’s Herzog Theatre had their phones confiscated before the lights went down, so nothing could leak.
It didn’t matter. The second the credits rolled, social media exploded anyway.
Film director Daniel Howat called it “maybe the most hysterical, shocking, insane documentary” he’s ever seen. Producer Erik Nordgren went bigger, ranking it “easily the best film of the year for me.” Critic Mark Johnson wrote that Fielder and Oppenheim delivered “one of the most transfixing and jaw-dropping documentaries” he’s seen, and begged people to stay spoiler-free before watching.
The actual reviews back up the hype. Variety called it “just about the furthest thing from a ‘pure’ documentary you’ve ever seen.” IndieWire admitted that even after nearly three hours, the film “leaves us hungry and curious for more.”
This isn’t Holmes’s first brush with the camera. Hulu already dramatized her rise and fall in “The Dropout,” with Amanda Seyfried playing her. Rumors now swirl that Seyfried shows up in Fielder’s film too.
Part of the chaos is Billy Evans, who reportedly becomes an unavoidable presence onscreen, at one point physically taking over a task from Holmes mid-scene.
Part of it is Fielder himself, who’s admitted even he struggled to make sense of what he was capturing while it happened.
And part of it is the sheer audacity of the premise. A woman convicted of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions with a blood-testing machine that never worked apparently agreed to be filmed at her most unguarded, for three years straight, right up until she walked into a Texas federal prison.
Redemption tour. Delusion. The ultimate long con. “You Can See Everything” seems built to never let you decide which.
A24 releases the film in theaters this October. Bring your own theories. Leave your phone at the door.
