You Can See Everything (2026) review: “Excellent, if exhausting.”

Name: You Can See Everything review: Excellent, if exhausting.
Item: You Can See Everything
Rating: 90
Author: Gary Alcock

FK Score: 90% · Gary Alcock, Editor-in-Chief, Fresh Kernels · 2026-10-25

The premise of “You Can See Everything” is almost too good. Elizabeth Holmes has 34 days left before she reports to prison, and she invites a film crew to follow her every move. What starts as a portrait of one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious founders turns into a strange, absorbing three-year descent. By the end, you’re no longer sure who is documenting whom.

This is an excellent documentary, and one of the best I’ve seen in years. The access is extraordinary and the filmmakers know what to do with it. Again and again they let a scene run past the point where a safer film would cut, and that’s where the truth comes out. Holmes is guarded and charming and unreadable, often all three in the same breath. The film never tells you what to think of her. It just keeps the camera running and lets you decide.

The film does have real problems, though. The pacing is slow, and at 174 minutes it is simply too long. Several stretches circle the same emotional ground without adding anything new. A tighter cut, maybe 40 minutes shorter, would hit harder and lose nothing important.

Amanda Seyfried’s appearance is the film’s weakest thread. She played Holmes in “The Dropout,” so her presence here should be fascinating. Instead she comes across badly: bratty, spoiled and out of touch, the kind of Hollywood figure who seems to think proximity to a story makes it hers. I don’t know if that’s who she is, but that’s how she reads on screen, and the film does nothing to soften it.

That points to a bigger problem. Hollywood comes off poorly in this film. Every time the industry steps into frame, it confirms the stereotypes audiences already hold about out-of-touch movie people. Maybe that was deliberate, but it often feels like the filmmakers didn’t notice.

The film is also tone-deaf on the legal reality of Holmes’s life. It treats her finances being kept separate from her husband, Billy Evans, and his power of attorney over her affairs as if they were suspicious or sinister. They aren’t. Holmes owes hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution and is in federal prison. Keeping a spouse’s finances separate and giving someone you trust the legal power to act for you are ordinary, sensible steps for anyone in her position. The film never explains that, and the omission leaves viewers with a misleading impression.

Those flaws are real, but they don’t sink it. “You Can See Everything” is gripping, unsettling and unlike anything else out there. Budget the evening for it, because it’s worth the time.