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

Nathan Fielder’s three-hour Elizabeth Holmes film has become a pop culture phenomenon but at a sold-out Times Square screening, no one was quite sure what to think In You Can See Everything, it’s Elizabeth Holmes’s partner who makes for 2026’s timeliest villain Secrets, lies and a shock A-list cameo: how You Can See Everything became the film of the year When I see a film a second time during its theatrical run, it’s typically to take someone else who hasn’t yet seen it, at least in part hoping to witness their reaction to a piece of art that excited or moved me in some way. Seeing Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything a second time in New York City on a Saturday night was that impulse writ larger. This is a movie garnering a surprisingly sizable audience, and outsized audience reactions to go along with it; rewatching it in a full 300-seat auditorium offered the opportunity to re-experience that sense of discovery. Perhaps more to the point, almost everyone I knew had seen it already; all I could do was observe strangers. This documentary, peering into (and helping to create) a hall of mirrors around the famed med-tech scammer Elizabeth Holmes, has become the box office story of the fall, actually rising 25% on its second weekend to gross another $19.5m – a rare feat even given its expanded screen count. With over $45m in North America, it’s already one of A24’s biggest movies ever; it could wind up in the company’s top three, and way up on the list of the highest-grossing nonfiction features. If You Can See Everything isn’t quite an Obsession -level cash cow, it’s probably even more surprising that a three-hour documentary whose existence was only announced about eight weeks ago is on track to make more money than high-profile new releases like Practical Magic 2, Verity and Street Fighter, among others. It’s also outgrossed co-director Oppenheim’s fellow A24 surprise hit Primetime , which has the benefit of genuine movie star Robert Pattinson. Continue reading...

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Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" helps increase the streaming viewership of Amanda Seyfried’s "The Dropout," starring Seyfried as the disgraced Theranos founder.

“Clayface” was No. 1 at the box office, but “You Can See Everything,” a documentary about the disgraced Theranos founder, surged in its second weekend.

The viral documentary about the Theranos founder from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim expanded to 2,655 theaters after initially opening in just 855 locations.

Netflix’s new documentary “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald” feels like a philosophical guide from the late, great comedian. Narrated primarily by the legendary comic himself, the documentary shows why Macdonald’s sharp-tongued, deadpan humor still hits home today. Directed by his close friend Judd Apatow, it uses clips from talk shows, old “Saturday Night Live” ...

A new documentary is reigniting debate over one of the most famous mysteries in American folklore.

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything," from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is projected to have another big weekend at the domestic box office.

"You Can See Everything," the documentary co-directed by Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder, is a breakthrough success. It follows Elizabeth Holmes, the convicted founder of Theranos, just weeks before she goes to prison. The intimate access and the questions it raises are the talk of this fall movie season. Jeffrey Brown sat down with Alissa Wilkinson for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

In less than two decades, Elizabeth Holmes went from Stanford dropout and Silicon Valley superstar to convicted fraudster.

Netflix released a documentary about the legendary late comedian last week. But what I remember most about him is something he said in a 2018 tweet: ‘How could a man be a cynic? It is a sin,' writes Josh Kaplan. I’ve long believed that to understand a society, a culture, its people, there’s no better place to look than comedians. Comedy is a medium that does its best to defy performative opinions. It lives and dies on the instant feedback of a raucous chorus of laughter, the desperate silence of a failed punch line. There’s no room for ambiguity. Something is funny or it is not; you cannot fake a laugh. It follows, then, that comedians are some of the most honest brokers in cultural life. They have to see the world and describe it how it is—otherwise they will fail. The late great Norm Macdonald was not only an incredible comedian; he was also someone relentlessly clear-eyed in how he saw the world. Saturday Night Live’s most famous Canadian son—and the subject of Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald, a new Judd Apatow documentary released on Netflix last week—was as much a great thinker as he was a great joke teller. He developed many distinct followings over his career, launching a cult classic YouTube podcast that inspired a generation of comedians with absurd jokes that would never have aired outside of his own channel. I discovered Norm late, only a few years before his death in 2021, but I was transfixed. His deadpan delivery, his commitment to the bit above all else, the fact that he could bring actual humor to an awards show red carpet, made me fall in love with his jokes in a million different ways. And now, nearly a decade later, his witticisms have crept into my speech and I find myself frequently looping back to jokes he made—including his final perfect punch line, when he reacted to hearing that Adolf Hitler had died decades ago with the deadpan, “Did he? I didn’t even know he was sick.” Millions repeated that joke after he passed away from cancer—a disease he’d kept secret for 10 years.

Human heroism is celebrated in profoundly personal ways in this extraordinary tale of a mind-boggling investigation into massive criminal organisations. It’s part The Wire, part The Imitation Game We begin with the audio of a horrifying call made to the French police in 2020. Two men are driving home when their car is attacked. The police ask for the caller’s name as bullets ricochet around the vehicle. “Who cares what we’re called?” the man shouts. “I’m going to die!” Seconds later, his companion is dead. This killing (of a mechanic called Houcine Hakkar) was planned and discussed in detail on an app called Sky ECC. The police were at the tip of an enormous iceberg. Showing modern law enforcement on screen can be a challenge: in the online era, it’s less cops and robbers; more zeros and ones. So it’s a surprise to be confronted with something as thrilling as The Narco Hack. This three-part documentary explores an extraordinary investigation by French, Belgian and Dutch police, during which they undermined several massive criminal organisations via methods at once impressively logical and completely mind-boggling by compromising Sky ECC’s encryption software. Continue reading...

When a mockumentary becomes class propaganda.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything has packed movie theaters and set records at the box office. It’s also kicked off a debate about, well, pretty much everything that happens on screen – including whether the film's subjects, notorious fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her mysterious partner Billy Evans, can ever be trusted. Carter Sherman and Guardian arts writer Adrian Horton break down Horton's five-star review of the film, analyze Evans's most shocking moments and chart Holmes' trajectory from girlboss to (maybe) tradwife. They want to know: how did ideas about gender and sex shape this film? Contains spoilers Continue reading...

The new superhero -- or in this case, supervillain -- offering from DC Studios is set to face a tight battle at the box office this weekend with the success of the documentary "You Can See Everything," which follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes before her prison sentence.

One of the film’s stranger aspects is Holmes agreeing to film her and her family before she went to prison.

In today’s Backstory, the new Holmes film takes issue with our profile, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks her viral essay and a professor shares why he thinks we apply “conservative” and “liberal” labels inconsistently.

One of the film’s stranger aspects is Holmes agreeing to film her and her family before she went to prison.

You Can See Everything, a documentary about the disgraced biotech company founder Elizabeth Holmes, has enjoyed a record-breaking opening in the US. It is a testament to how fascinated we remain by the convicted fraudster, but what is behind the enduring appeal? US technology editor Blake Montgomery tells Madeleine Finlay why Holmes continues to fascinate us, and reflects on whether the Theranos scandal has had a permanent impact on Silicon Valley Continue reading...

For the first time since Sydney Loofe’s 2017 murder amid a satanic ritual, her family is speaking out in a new three-part Hulu docuseries.

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An interview with the comedian about OCD, family, and the new Judd Apatow documentary about her life

Microplastics have become the latest health craze. Once a slow-simmering health concern, the perils of plastic are on full blast thanks to a recent Netflix documentary chronicling the plastic detox journey of several couples struggling with infertility. The public-service announcement is even spreading this year via a national billboard campaign that hit a city near ...

With a true crime junkie’s working knowledge of the rise and fall of Theranos, and critical intel on the best time to pee during the movie, I came to the theater prepared. But once I survived three hours under the spell of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary “You Can See Everything,” I left with ...