Can you see everything?

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…