Watching You Can See Everything in a semi-crowded theater was the most kinetic, interactive experience I’ve ever had watching a simple movie…and I’ve been to a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening, crowd participation and all. I gasped, exclaimed, and clawed at my husband as we turned inside out in our seats, both riveted and repulsed by what we were seeing on screen. Is it the movie of the year? Definitely. Does it accomplish what it attempts? Maybe. Maybe not.

In You Can See Everything, Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of defrauding investors of her health tech company Theranos, has 34 days before she must report to prison to serve her 11-year sentence. Naturally, as one does when facing down a decade behind bars, Holmes invited a documentary crew led by Nathan “Nathan for You” Fielder and director Lance Oppenheimer to observe her final days with her two young children and her partner Billy Evans, heir to the Evans Hotels business. Remember that name, it’ll come up later.

Matter of fact, let’s bring him up fucking now. If you have any experience with an abusive or narcissistic person, an early scene involving whisking eggs will set your self-preservation alarm klaxons ringing at full volume. ” Though the documentary has been marketed as showing, or attempting to show, Holmes’ true face as a person, we also get a really good look at the person standing next to her, who is just as much in frame, influencing every aspect of her life: what questions she answers for the documentary, what questions her father can answer, her public image, her likeness, her X account, right down to how she whisks her eggs.

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