Elizabeth Holmes is back in the headlines. And somehow, Nathan Fielder has managed to turn one of Silicon Valley’s most infamous stories into a documentary that nobody seems able to explain.
You Can See Everything begins just 34 days before Holmes is due to report to prison. She invites Fielder and his co-director Lance Oppenheim into her home, giving them access to her life that no previous filmmaker had managed to get. What starts as a short documentary becomes a three-year journey filled with unexpected turns, strange encounters, and questions that linger long after the screen goes dark.
The film opens in US theaters on October 16, 2026. But if you’re wondering when you can watch it at home, whether it will land on HBO Max, or what actually happened during those three years of filming, here’s everything you need to know.
Is You Can See Everything streaming yet?
No. As of late September 2026, You Can See Everything has not been released on any streaming platform. The film opens in US theaters on October 16, 2026, and a streaming or digital release date has not been confirmed by A24.
Where to watch You Can See Everything right now?
| Format | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| US Theaters | Available from October 16, 2026 | Wide release via A24 |
| Streaming (subscription) | Not yet available | No date confirmed |
| Digital rental | Not yet available | No date confirmed |
| Digital purchase | Not yet available | No date confirmed |
| Physical media (DVD/Blu-ray) | Not yet available | No date confirmed |
Tickets for the October 16 theatrical release went on sale from October 1, 2026. Major cinema chains and independent theaters across the US are listing the film. A24 has not confirmed the full release pattern yet, so availability by city may vary at launch.
When will You Can See Everything come to streaming?
A24 has not announced a streaming date. But based on how A24 handles its releases, the pattern is fairly predictable.
A24 has an active distribution deal with HBO Max (now Max) under which its films go to that platform as their first streaming destination after the theatrical and PVOD windows close. The precedent set by A24’s biggest 2026 release, Backrooms, saw it arrive on HBO Max exactly 119 days after its US theatrical opening.
If You Can See Everything follows the same timeline from its October 16 release date, the estimated streaming arrival on HBO Max would be around February 12, 2027.
That is an estimate based on A24’s established pattern, not a confirmed date. A platform or digital release could be announced sooner, particularly if A24 moves toward a more limited or awards-focused rollout. But 119 days has been the consistent window for the studio’s recent releases.
| Window | Estimated Timing |
|---|---|
| US theaters | October 16, 2026 |
| PVOD / digital rental | Likely 60-90 days after theatrical (December 2026 or January 2027) |
| HBO Max streaming | Estimated around February 12, 2027 |
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What is You Can See Everything about?
You Can See Everything is a feature documentary from A24 directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. It runs 2 hours and 54 minutes.
The official synopsis from A24 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.”
That is the starting point. What actually happens over those 174 minutes is considerably harder to describe.
In April 2023, Holmes and her partner Billy Evans invited Fielder and Oppenheim to move into their San Diego home and live with them for the 34 days before Holmes had to report to federal prison at FPC Bryan in Texas. Holmes had not given a public interview in a decade. She agreed to this with no apparent restrictions on access.
Fielder accepted. He moved in. He filmed everything.
What started as a portrait of a convicted fraudster in her final days of freedom turned into a three-year project. The film follows not just those 34 days but the continuation of the story over years. It includes phone calls with Holmes from inside prison. It takes turns nobody could have anticipated going in.
At the post-screening Q&A at Telluride, moderated by Emma Stone, Fielder described still being baffled by the whole thing. He told the audience he does not know why Holmes and Evans wanted him there. He said he cannot fully explain what he experienced. He asked people to see the film and tell him.
That Q&A exchange went viral. So did the trailer. The sentence “Why would I deceive you?” has been clipped and shared millions of times.
The Telluride Premiere: What happened?
You Can See Everything premiered at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival on September 6, 2026 as an unannounced secret screening. Attendees did not know what film they were about to see. They were required to surrender their mobile phones before entering to prevent any information from leaking before A24 was ready.
When the film ended, the reaction was immediate and chaotic. The words circulating on the gondola line afterward, according to Variety’s Owen Gleiberman, were “wild” and “WTF?” He described them as compliments. Other early reactions included “What the f**k did I just watch?” and “unparalleled.”
A24 released a teaser trailer on the same night as the premiere. It became an instant viral moment. The image of Holmes telling Fielder she is always being real while the camera slowly pulls back to reveal she has been rocking her baby throughout the conversation hit a nerve with everyone who saw it.
Ten reviews out of Telluride gave the film a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic placed it at 95 out of 100 based on seven critics, indicating universal acclaim.
A24 confirmed the theatrical release date and opened ticket sales shortly after.
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Who made You Can See Everything?
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director | Nathan Fielder |
| Director | Lance Oppenheim |
| Producer | Nathan Fielder |
| Producer | Lance Oppenheim |
| Producer | Tatiana Bears |
| Producer | Maggie Ambrose |
| Producer | Jack Davis |
| Executive Producer | Emily Osborne |
| Director of Photography | David Bolen |
| Editor | Adam Locke-Norton |
| Original Music | Ari Balouzian |
| Distributor | A24 |
A24 reportedly greenlit the film with no guarantee it would ever see a release. The studio told Fielder and Oppenheim that if it did not work out, they could simply discard it. That arrangement is part of why the film remained a total secret until the night it premiered.
Who is Nathan Fielder?
Nathan Fielder is a Canadian comedian, writer, and director. He is best known for two television series: Nathan For You (Comedy Central, 2013-2017), in which he posed as a business consultant offering absurdist advice to real small businesses, and The Rehearsal (HBO, 2022-present), in which he staged elaborate rehearsals to help ordinary people prepare for difficult conversations and life events.
You Can See Everything is his feature film directorial debut. His approach to The Rehearsal, in which the line between documentary reality and staged performance became progressively harder to locate, made him an unusual but fitting choice to step into Elizabeth Holmes’s house with a camera.
He also co-wrote and starred in The Curse (Paramount+, 2023-2024) with Emma Stone, which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Series.
Here is a look at his key work:
| Title | Year | Format | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan For You | 2013-2017 | TV Series | Comedy Central |
| The Rehearsal | 2022-present | TV Series | HBO |
| The Curse | 2023-2024 | TV Series | Paramount+ |
| You Can See Everything | 2026 | Feature Documentary | A24 / Theatrical |
Lance Oppenheim, the co-director, is known for Some Kind of Heaven (2020), a documentary about the largest retirement community in the United States. His follow-up A24 feature Primetime, about the life of TV host Chris Hansen, premiered at Venice 2026.
Who appears in You Can See Everything?
This is not a documentary built on archival footage and outside experts. The film lives inside Holmes’s actual home. Here is the full cast:
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Holmes | Herself (Theranos founder, convicted fraudster) |
| Nathan Fielder | Himself (director, on-screen interviewer) |
| Billy Evans | Himself (Holmes’s partner) |
| Amanda Seyfried | Herself / Elizabeth Holmes (in a pivotal mid-film appearance) |
| Christopher Abbott | Himself |
| William Holmes Evans | Himself (Holmes and Evans’s son) |
| Invicta Holmes Evans | Herself (Holmes and Evans’s daughter) |
| Lance Oppenheim | Himself (co-director) |
Amanda Seyfried’s appearance is one of the most discussed elements of the film. She won an Emmy for playing Holmes in the 2022 Hulu limited series The Dropout. In You Can See Everything, Fielder and Holmes actually sit together and watch The Dropout, with Holmes reacting to Seyfried’s portrayal of her on screen.
Later in the film, when Fielder needs to sustain Holmes’s presence during the period she is imprisoned, he calls Seyfried to read transcripts of Holmes’s conversations. Seyfried becomes, in effect, a bridge between the reality of Holmes and a theatrical representation of her. It is one of the stranger and more compelling formal choices in recent documentary filmmaking.
Christopher Abbott’s involvement has not been widely detailed in pre-release reporting.
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Who is Elizabeth Holmes and why does this film matter?
Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 at the age of 19, dropping out of Stanford to do it. She claimed her company had developed technology capable of running hundreds of medical tests from a single drop of blood, at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional labs.
The company raised over $900 million in funding. Holmes appeared on the covers of major magazines. She was named the youngest self-made female billionaire in the United States. Her distinctive deep voice, her Steve Jobs-style black turtlenecks, and her pitch became cultural shorthand for Silicon Valley’s “fake it until you make it” culture.
The technology did not work as advertised. Investigations by The Wall Street Journal in 2015 began to unravel the fraud. Holmes was charged with wire fraud and conspiracy in 2018.
In January 2022, a jury convicted her on four counts of fraud and conspiracy. She was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison. She began her sentence in May 2023 at FPC Bryan in Texas.
The story has already produced more adaptations than almost any fraud case in recent memory:
| Title | Format | Year | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley | Documentary | 2019 | HBO |
| Bad Blood | Book | 2018 | Published by Knopf |
| The Dropout | Limited Series | 2022 | Hulu |
| You Can See Everything | Documentary | 2026 | A24 / Theatrical |
What makes You Can See Everything different from all of them is access. Holmes refused to participate in any previous adaptation. She gave no interviews from 2016 onward. She did not cooperate with The Dropout or any documentary. Then, 34 days before going to prison, she invited Fielder into her home with a camera and let him stay.
Nobody has a clean explanation for why. That uncertainty is part of what the film is actually about.
What are critics saying?
The critical response out of Telluride has been unusually strong, even by documentary standards.
| Review Source | Score / Verdict |
|---|---|
| Rotten Tomatoes | 100% (10 reviews, average 9.5/10) |
| Metacritic | 95 out of 100 (universal acclaim) |
Variety called it “a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus.” Critic Owen Gleiberman wrote that the film overlaps reality, performance, deception, and mental illness until it brings viewers into the enigmatic space where all those things meet. He noted it never mounts an apologia for Holmes. The real question it asks, he wrote, is not whether she is guilty. The question is what makes someone like her tick.
Deadline‘s Pete Hammond said the film blows the lid off a story that has already been adapted into documentaries, podcasts, bestselling books, and a limited series. He described it as resembling a Bogart film at points, with noirish music accompanying Fielder’s trip into a rabbit hole.
Early audience reactions at Telluride described it as endlessly thought-provoking, full of turns nobody could see coming, and deeply unsettling.
One Letterboxd reviewer called it “unparalleled, full-access. Shocking, expansive, and revealing, depending on what you choose to believe.”
The Q&A afterward was moderated by Emma Stone, and Fielder’s admission that he still does not fully understand what he experienced in making the film added to the sense that this documentary resists easy categorization. A24 has asked publications to refer to it as a documentary rather than a hybrid. That framing itself tells you something about how blurry the lines get.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is You Can See Everything on Netflix or Max?
Not yet. The film is not on any streaming platform as of late September 2026. It opens in US theaters on October 16, 2026.
When will You Can See Everything be on streaming?
No official date has been announced. With A24’s current deal with HBO Max and a typical 119-day theatrical window, that means the earliest estimated streaming date is around February 2027.
Where will You Can See Everything stream?
Based on A24’s current distribution deal, HBO Max is the most likely first streaming destination. A24 films under the renewed studio deal go to Max after their theatrical and PVOD windows.
Is You Can See Everything a Netflix documentary?
No. You Can See Everything is an A24 documentary, not a Netflix production. Netflix is not involved in its distribution.
How long is You Can See Everything?
The film runs 2 hours and 54 minutes (174 minutes).
Is You Can See Everything about Elizabeth Holmes going to prison?
Yes. The film begins 34 days before Holmes reports to federal prison at FPC Bryan in Texas, where she is serving an 11-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy.
Did Elizabeth Holmes agree to this documentary?
Yes. Holmes and Billy Evans invited the filmmakers into their San Diego home and gave them full access for the 34-day period before her imprisonment. The production then continued for three years.
Where is Elizabeth Holmes now?
Holmes is currently serving her federal prison sentence at FPC Bryan in a Texas federal prison camp. She was sentenced to over 11 years following her January 2022 conviction.
Who else is in You Can See Everything besides Elizabeth Holmes?
Nathan Fielder appears throughout as the on-screen interviewer. Billy Evans, Holmes’s partner, is a central figure. Amanda Seyfried appears in a significant mid-film sequence. Christopher Abbott also appears.
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