YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING

PREMISE

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey.

On a website called spoiler free reviews, sometimes you run across a movie that you want to review very badly that you just can’t say much about… Because damn near everything is a spoiler.

You can see everything is very unique film in the fact that it’s got a hype train right now that very few movies in the past couple of years has it gotten. Whatever fate it will have at the box office is done mostly because of good reviews and word of mouth and that is rare to see. Even more rare to see is the fact that this is indeed a 3-hour documentary of all things hitting all these milestones with very little of the Hollywood promotion machine engineering the aforementioned hype…. It’s for a good reason.

Try and follow me here when I say this, but once upon a time there was a rap album by the group Outkast called speakerBoxx / the love below. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest rap “albums” of all time. However, this was not a traditional rap album, it was two absolutely incredible solo albums from both of the members of the group blended into one package. And to compare that rap “album” to other rap albums is kind of unfair. I couldn’t help but to think of that when trying to compare this documentary to other documentaries that I’ve seen. It doesn’t feel right doing so. You can see everything to me does not feel like a great documentary. It feels like two great documentaries that have been blended into one particular piece.

The first part of this movie is a unintentionally funny, fascinating, and in all honesty kind of creepy look at the films subject Elizabeth Holmes leading up to the day of her arrest. To see the robotic personality that she projected onto the public be humanized in such a way is almost refreshing to see. Her husband is also around a lot, and without saying much, I can just say that he’s quite possibly the best antagonist that I’ve seen in film in all of 2026.

One Elizabeth Holmes goes to jail (NOT A SPOLIER AT ALL btw) this movie completely transforms in such a creative and unexpected way that as soon as I realize what was going on, I understood the hype train that currently exists for this movie. As good as the first part of this movie was, the second part of this movie is true brilliance…. And it’s almost impossible for me to talk about in any kind of detail. Because of that, it’s hard for me to do my normal review where I section off all the good, the bad, and the ugly of a movie. There’s a lot of excellent stuff in the second half of this that is possibly innovative to the documentary genre.

It is 3 hours. And that is my chief complaint. There’s a lot of stuff that gets drawn out in the first section of this film. There is a section involving Elizabeth Holmes parents that abruptly gets cut off by her husband right when it was getting to be very interesting and could have took the documentary in another way. There are shots that last for way too long, and like any movie over two and a half hours, there are pacing issues here and there.

But trust me, these are small complaints in comparison to the overall package. This is the best “documentary feature film” that I’ve seen in many years. It would be best if you went and saw it as soon as you possibly could with a large audience. Go in as blind as you possibly can, that’s the best way to experience this at this point. 



YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is in theaters now