Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ premieres at New York Film Festival ahead of Oct. 16 release

“You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary following Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the weeks before she reported to prison, screened Wednesday at the New York Film Festival, the Associated Press reported, ahead of A24’s Oct. 16 release.

Confirmed By Roxy Vale · Staff Writer — Entertainment (Gossip Desk) United States Published Oct 1, 2026, 1:02 PM PT Updated Oct 1, 2026, 1:02 PM PT

CONFIRMED (Film at Lincoln Center (opens in new tab) and A24 (opens in new tab)): Film at Lincoln Center (opens in new tab) added the New York premiere of “You Can See Everything,” directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, to the Spotlight section of the 64th New York Film Festival, which runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 12. The festival listed a Sept. 30 screening at Alice Tully Hall with both directors in attendance. A24 (opens in new tab)’s page for the film lists an Oct. 16, 2026, release, and the AP reported that A24 (opens in new tab) will release it that day. The Associated Press reported that the film premiered at the festival on Wednesday, Sept. 30, and that moviegoers lined up outside Alice Tully Hall as early as 3 a.m. for the sold-out 8 p.m. screening.

WHAT THE FILM IS, PER A24 (opens in new tab): The distributor’s synopsis reads: “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”

WHAT THE FILM IS, PER THE FESTIVAL: Film at Lincoln Center (opens in new tab)’s description says Holmes and her romantic partner, William “Billy” Evans, invited Fielder into their home to live with them and record their lives “just 34 days before her incarceration,” and that the couple “profess her innocence on their own, intimate terms.” The festival says the film was “created in secret over the past four years” and calls it “a fascinating portrait of a relationship.”

TELLURIDE (per the AP, Variety (opens in new tab) and Deadline (opens in new tab)): The film first screened Sept. 6 as an unannounced surprise at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. The AP described it as a no-phones screening, and Deadline (opens in new tab) reported that attendees’ phones and electronic devices were locked away before they entered. Variety (opens in new tab) and Deadline (opens in new tab) list the running time as 174 minutes; the AP describes it as nearly three hours.

HOW IT CAME ABOUT (per the AP): The AP reported that the filmmakers heard Holmes and Evans had approached A24 (opens in new tab) about making a documentary, and that Fielder lived in a guest house at the couple’s beachside home in Del Mar, California, during filming. “I am still struggling to this day to understand what I went through,” Fielder said in a Q&A following the New York screening, according to the AP, which reported that the filmmakers asked the crowd more than once not to reveal the film’s twists.

BACKGROUND (per the AP): Holmes founded the blood-testing company Theranos. The AP reported that she was convicted on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy and entered a Texas prison in May 2023. Variety (opens in new tab) and the Guardian (opens in new tab) describe her sentence as 11 years. According to the festival’s description and Deadline (opens in new tab)’s review, Holmes maintains her innocence in the film; Variety (opens in new tab)’s critic wrote that the film is not trying to reopen the question of her guilt.

CRITICS (attributed): The Guardian (opens in new tab)’s review, by Adrian Horton, called the film “a modern masterpiece of deceit” and wrote that “the hype is deserved.” Variety (opens in new tab)’s Owen Gleiberman called it “a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus” made “with a spirit of true inquiry.” Deadline (opens in new tab)’s Pete Hammond wrote that it is unlike any documentary he has seen “in terms of pure access.” IndieWire (opens in new tab) said it drew some of the best reviews of the year for any film.

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The premiere and release date are confirmed by the festival and distributor. The film’s description comes from their promotional material and from reviews, which are uniformly enthusiastic and are attributed as opinion. Claims about Holmes and Evans made by critics are not repeated as fact.

Variety, Deadline, IndieWire and The Hollywood Reporter are among the outlets Film at Lincoln Center lists as supporters of the festival. The AP and the Guardian are not on that list and give independent accounts of the screening.

A24, the festival, the AP and Variety say filming began 34 days before Holmes reported to prison; Deadline says 36 days.

The festival says the film was made “over the past four years”; A24 calls it a “three-year journey”; the AP says it was shot over three years; Deadline says it was shot beginning in 2023 and picks up two years later.

The AP and Variety call Evans Holmes’s partner and place the home in Del Mar; the festival says “romantic partner”; the Guardian calls him her husband and the home a rental; Deadline calls him her boyfriend and the home a San Diego house.

The AP describes Holmes’s conviction as four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy; Deadline says four counts of defrauding investors; the Guardian says wire fraud and conspiracy.