You Can See Everything: Enough Rope, Patiently Supplied

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There are two kinds of access documentary. The first kind extracts: it wins its way into the room and leaves with the confession, the slip, the bombshell the trailer has promised, and its grammar is the ambush, the hard question, the camera held a beat too long on a face that has just lied. The second kind supplies. It gives the subject the room, the time and the silence, and then it films what the subject does with them. You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s 174-minute documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, belongs with unusual purity to the second kind, and the reviews, which are rapturous to a degree I distrust on principle, agree on this one point even where they disagree on everything else: nobody in this film is cornered. Holmes and her partner Billy Evans, by The Wolfman Cometh’s account, regularly volunteer information Fielder was not seeking. Enough rope, patiently supplied.

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You Can See Everything: Enough Rope, Patiently Supplied