“I believe her; I don’t know why,” shrugs someone partway through You Can See Everything, a new documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. It’s a sentiment you too will probably harbor, then rethink, then harbor again, then rethink over and over across this tricksy, elastically surprising movie, which, like the other projects of its co-directors, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is more drawn to human foibles à la Errol Morris than to posing a question and setting out to find a conclusive answer.

Its production starting a little more than a month before Holmes began her more than 11-year prison sentence for four counts of fraud on May 30, 2023, You Can See Everything was meant to be, in the eyes of Holmes and her opportunistic, family-monied, and all-around awful husband Billy Evans, a way to get the public on Holmes’ side. The public needs to see that the convicted grifter isn’t a capital-minded egomaniac in the way the fictionalized miniseries The Dropout (2022) more than implied; the public needs to see that she did not, in fact, intentionally mislead her many investors (to whom she’s slowly paying $425 million in restitution) and simply was poor in her sales pitch’s choice of words.

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