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Nathan Fielder Made a Dishonest Movie

His Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, is a deeply unethical piece of filmmaking.

Christian Britschgi | 10.26.2026 1:55 PM

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Is Nathan Fielder interested in making something innovative and great, or does he only really care about making money?

That's technically the question You Can See Everything, the new A24 documentary co-directed by Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, asks about its subject, Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder and convicted fraudster currently in federal prison. 

As the documentary progresses, however, it's a question one increasingly asks about Fielder himself. 

You Can See Everything was billed as an intimate look at the day-to-day life of Holmes, her romantic partner Billy Evans, and their two children, in the days before she reports for her 11-year prison sentence.

In truth, that only describes the first half of the three-hour-long film, in which Fielder and his camera crews are embedded in Holmes and Evans' cramped San Diego beach house in the month preceding her incarceration.

In part one, we truly do see everything, from Holmes making breakfast for the kids and talking to lawyers about last-minute appeals to Evans showering naked. 

All the while, Fielder obsessively explores in his own meta-comedy style a question many have asked about Holmes: Were the lies she told about Theranos' diagnostic machines merely a scam to rip off investors? Or had she actually convinced herself that these falsehoods were at most white lies in the........

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