This review contains spoilers. I have heard it said that of all the drugs, fame is the most addictive. For Elizabeth Holmes, at least, I am willing to believe that is true. It is the only explanation for You Can See Everything, a movie that is, at its core, about several varieties of manipulation. Holmes, […]
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- Can you see everything?
- What three hours of a documentary looks like to someone who spent four months at the Holmes trial.
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- Oct 20, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
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- Can you see everything?
- What three hours of a documentary looks like to someone who spent four months at the Holmes trial.
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- Elizabeth Lopatto
- Oct 20, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
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- Elizabeth Lopatto
- is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.
- This review contains spoilers.
- I have heard it said that of all the drugs, fame is the most addictive. For Elizabeth Holmes, at least, I am willing to believe that is true. It is the only explanation for
- You Can See Everything
- , a movie that is, at its core, about several varieties of manipulation.
- Holmes, as the CEO of Theranos, was
- a business-world celebrity
- a woman who’d built a private company valued at $9 billion around a miniaturized blood testing platform that supposedly let people test just a drop of blood for a variety of ailments. She had a deal with Walgreens, speaking gigs, a New Yorker profile, a cover story in Fortune ; Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch was among her investors and Henry Kissinger sat on Theranos’ board. The company crumbled after John Carreyrou, then a reporter for The Wall Street Journal , broke the story in 2015 that Theranos wasn’t using its own technology to run most of its blood tests. Only 15 tests were run on the Theranos machine, and insiders had doubts about their accuracy. In 2021, I spent four months sitting through Holmes’ trial for fraud . She was found guilty of one count of conspiracy and three counts of wire fraud. The evidence supporting that verdict was damning: forged memos that appeared to be from pharmaceutical companies Theranos had done testing for; recordings of Holmes lying about doing testing in Afghanistan with the American military and claiming Theranos could perform more than 1,000 tests on its proprietary machines, even though only 200 were listed as options on the website because “we have operationalized certain tasks, expecting a certain set of ordering patterns.” Fielder got sucked in anyway Several Theranos employees testified they’d told her their misgivings about the accuracy of the proprietary tests , only to be summarily dismissed. They faced harassment and retaliation as a result of talking to Carreyrou — nastygrams from Theranos lawyers, bizarre investigations from Fusion GPS , and private investigators tailing them . In one case, Holmes nearly destroyed the relationship between a man and his grandfather . (You can read the grandson’s review of the movie here .) These specifics do not appear in You Can See Everything . That isn’t its project; the film is about several varieties of manipulation. Holmes, […]