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Can you see everything?

Elizabeth Holmes is talking to her child. In the background, Nathan Fielder lurks, watching.
What are we looking at, and who wants us to see it? | Image: A24

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 Ne …

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