Here's what critics who saw Nathan Fielder's secret Elizabeth Holmes doc are saying

Weeks earlier Elizabeth Holmes entered national situation aft being convicted of fraud, the Theranos laminitis welcomed a movie unit into her home.

The first teaser for the resulting documentary, "You Can See Everything," makes it look for illustration a mind-bending thriller starring the fallen tech visionary.

A24 amazed critics astatine the Telluride Film Festival connected Sunday nighttime pinch a screening of the intimately held project, which had been kept nether wraps for 3 years. It hits theaters successful October.

Journalists who attended the screening wrote that phones and smart glasses were bagged upon entry. The show head asked for secrecy connected crippled twists and a personage cameo.

"What happens successful Telluride stays successful Telluride," she told the crowd, Los Angeles Times newsman Josh Rottenberg recalled.

Comic Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim, whose A24 characteristic "Primetime" is besides making the show circuit, directed the documentary. Fielder's signature blurring of existent life and characteristic acting is connected afloat show arsenic he presses Holmes and her husband, Billy Evans, connected whether they are telling him the truth.

A one-minute teaser shows an speech betwixt Holmes and Fielder. Holmes insists she has thing to hide.

"I'm not that person," she says, adding that she is engaging pinch him "as a quality being." Fielder past asks whether she is being real.

"I'm ever being real," Holmes responds, unblinking.

At 19, Holmes group retired to build a diagnostics institution that could tally a artillery of humor tests pinch a fewer drops of blood. The thought took her from Stanford dropout to the Time 100, drafting comparisons to Steve Jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, including Larry Ellison and Rupert Murdoch. Then came a Wall Street Journal enquiry that exposed superior problems pinch the Theranos technology, mounting disconnected the company's unraveling.

Holmes was sentenced to 11 years successful prison aft being recovered blameworthy connected 4 counts of fraud and conspiracy. Her projected merchandise day is successful 2031.

Here's what critics are saying.

Holmes says she did thing wrong

Owen Gleiberman, Variety: "She resembles the '80s and '90s character Kim Greist, and has a mode that's disarming successful its gentleness. Yet erstwhile Fielder asks astir the crimes she was convicted of, she pleads a unusual benignant of ignorance. She claims she did thing wrong, and it's clear she believes it."

A Hollywood character plays Holmes successful the reenactments

Josh Rottenberg, The Los Angeles Times: "The movie takes a bid of progressively surreal turns, including elaborate reenactments involving a Hollywood character (her presence is excessively bully to spoil) that further scramble the statement betwixt reality and performance."

Her hubby is an 'unlikely star'

Kyle Buchanan, X: "You whitethorn think, 'Is location really thing caller to opportunity astir Elizabeth Holmes?' And location very overmuch is: Her partner Billy, a chaotic narcissist who emerges arsenic the improbable prima of this film, is the astir fascinating doc taxable I've seen successful ages. 3 hours and I could've watched 3 more."

The segment everyone is talking about

Pete Hammond, Deadline: "Fielder has a section time so grilling her and Billy who are willing, if wildly offbeat subjects here. In 1 unusual segment he asks if they person ever heard of Abbott & Costello (no) aliases their drama classical routine, 'Who's On First' which he proceeds to show them to elicit her bizarre interpretation."