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⚠️🎬A new film just landed the highest Metacritic score in nearly a decade, and it's a documentary: You Can See Everything

Its subject is Elizabeth Holmes. She dropped out of Stanford at 19 and built a company valued at $9 billion, roughly the same size as Tesla when it first passed $10 billion in market cap. The company later turned out to be a fraud from start to finish.

You Can See Everything was filmed in the 34 days before Holmes reported to prison. She appears on camera herself, and the film follows her daily life through interviews and observational footage.Add what she did back then, and that famous wide-eyed, almost unblinking stare, and the whole film feels like a slow-burning thriller.

Here's what happened:

In 2003, Holmes founded Theranos, a blood-testing company that claimed it could run hundreds of tests from a few drops of blood from a finger prick. With that story, and a carefully copied Steve Jobs image, she brought political heavyweights like Henry Kissinger and George Shultz onto her board. By 2014, Theranos was valued at about $9 billion, and Holmes was the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. But the technology never actually worked. The company quietly ran samples on modified commercial machines, misled investors and regulators, and sent inaccurate results to real patients.

In 2015, Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou exposed the fraud with help from whistleblowers inside the company. Theranos shut down in 2018. In 2022, Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors and sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison, which she is still serving. Her story has become Silicon Valley's best-known warning about "fake it till you make it." #ElizabethHolmes