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Brooklyn-born film obsessive Robbie Holmes waited until he'd seen You Can See Everything twice before sitting down to talk about it, and he still isn't sure he's done processing it. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's A24 documentary follows Elizabeth Holmes in the 34 days before she reports to prison, and this 1er™ is about what happens when a documentary works like a magic trick.

"I went into the theater with one sense of what the movie was, and I came out of the theater less sure."

Robbie starts spoiler-free, covering the stripped-down three-camera shoot, the natural light, and the small domestic moments that end up saying everything, before a countdown takes him into full spoiler territory. If you haven't seen it yet, he'd rather you hit pause and catch it in theaters first. He also looks at the chaos it's about to cause for awards voters, and at why first and second viewings land so differently. Amy weighs in too, with three stars: original, confusing, and mixed feelings.

"I have not seen so much conversation in a movie theater, or in the lobby afterwards, as I have with this movie."

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First viewing: ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ ❤️ https://boxd.it/gRvkRr
Second viewing: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️ https://boxd.it/h7S1l7

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