Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’

“You Can See Everything” is already a container bureau sensation, with a $15 cardinal opening play (based connected Sunday estimates). That’s the 2nd biggest opening play ever for a documentary film.

The astir three-hour movie —  archetypal revealed past period astatine a secretive screening astatine the Telluride Film Festival —  is lone playing successful 855 theaters this weekend. (In contrast, the weekend’s fig 1 movie, “Street Fighter,” is playing successful 3,575.) But it had a reported 2,000 sellout screenings, and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive; “You Can See Everything” presently has a people of 99% connected some Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.

The communicative of Elizabeth Holmes’ emergence and autumn — founding blood-testing startup Theranos, attracting enactment from galore of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, past yet being sentenced to 11 years successful prison for defrauding successful investors — has already been told successful books, podcasts, scripted miniseries, and different documentaries.

But “You Can See Everything”’s filmmakers were fixed extended entree to Holmes and her household successful the period earlier she went to jail, and the engagement of “The Rehearsal” creator Nathan Fielder — who co-directed the movie with Lance Oppenheim — made the full happening adjacent much intriguing.

While I haven’t seen the movie myself, I tin astatine slightest attest to the trouble of uncovering tickets successful Manhattan: I spent a bully chunk of yesterday trying to find a screening for tonight. I recovered precisely 1 with seats disposable that weren’t successful the beforehand row. (Yes, of people I’m going.)

And TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling already got to spot it connected Thursday. She wrote that the enigmatic Holmes yet seems to person met her lucifer successful Fielder, a deadpan comedian who’s arguably conscionable arsenic unusual and mysterious arsenic she is. Fielder’s period with Holmes is seemingly conscionable the opening of what sounds similar an progressively surreal, metatextual odyssey.

The treatment astir “You Can See Everything” whitethorn beryllium making it harder for different tech-centric films to interruption through. Aaron Sorkin’s “Social Network” follow-up “The Social Reckoning” opened to a disappointing $5.5 cardinal past weekend, and has already fallen wholly retired of the apical 10. And Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary “Musk” — hampered, perhaps, by resistance from societal platforms and a four-hour runtime — made lone $306,702 this weekend.