If You Like You Can See Everything, Watch This Underrated 2025 Movie Next

This article contains full spoilers for "You Can See Everything," so send the documentary crew packing and stop reading if you haven't seen the film. Spoilers ahead!

The first 90-odd minutes of Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder's stunning A24 documentary "You Can See Everything" are unsettling, to be sure ... but they're also a pretty standard documentary at the end of the day. During those minutes, Fielder, stepping in front of the camera as a sort of conduit to the audience, interviews disgraced tech mogul Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans as Holmes prepares to serve an 11-year jail sentence for defrauding Theranos investors with her faulty blood-testing machine. It's understandable that, as a viewer, you start to wonder where in the world the rest of this nearly three-hour movie is going after we dutifully follow Holmes to prison. 

That's when everything — or what you can see of it — changes. Fielder presses play on the footage he's collected this far on a laptop, and as the camera pans back, we see he's showing it to Amanda Seyfried, the beloved actor who just so happened to play Holmes in Liz Meriwether's (excellent) Hulu series about the Theranos grift, "The Dropout." Seyfried then sticks around for the rest of "You Can See Everything," and not only does she prove to be an enormously helpful sounding board for Fielder as he tries to unpack Holmes' whole deal, she also re-enacts scenes that Fielder can't show for various legal reasons or never filmed. Enter Christopher Abbott, the "Girls" veteran who plays Evans in these re-enactments ... and with whom Seyfried shares a connection.

That's right! Seyfried and Abbott appeared in "The Testament of Ann Lee" together, a 2025 movie that didn't get nearly enough love. So, what is that movie about?

Now, I can't prove this, so don't assume that what I'm about to say would hold up in court or whatever. The first part of "You Can See Everything" was filmed in 2023, right before Elizabeth Holmes started her prison sentence. The second part, according to a title card, was filmed two years later. "The Testament of Ann Lee" wrapped its filming in December 2024. Again, I cannot prove this, but it seems to me that Amanda Seyfried, feeling inspired to play Elizabeth Holmes again after watching that footage provided by Nathan Fielder, may have called up her "Ann Lee" co-star, Christopher Abbott, in a pinch when they needed someone to play Billy Evans (one of the most staggering villains in recent film history).

In Mona Fastvold's bizarre and beautiful ode to Ann Lee, the real historical figure credited with creating the Shaker movement and religion, Seyfried plays Ann, a woman driven to religious fervor after joining what was previously known as the "Shaking Quakers" (Quakers who "shake" through dance) and losing all of her children in their infancies. Early in Ann's time with the Quakers, she meets Abraham Standerin, who's played by Abbott and whose interest in sex acts that Ann deems sinful ends up destroying their marriage. Ann eventually leaves Abraham behind to spread Shaker word and preach her commitment to God and celibacy, but Abbott is an integral part of the movie. Even if it was just a happy accident that they ended up playing a very different couple in "You Can See Everything," it's still pretty wild, all things considered. Abbott only has a small role in the documentary, though. It's ultimately Seyfried's film.

Amanda Seyfried is one of our most talented and consistently excellent actors, and she should at least have an Oscar nomination for "The Testament of Ann Lee" under her belt. (As of this writing, Seyfried has one Academy Award nod for Best Supporting Actress for "Mank.") The streets — and by "the streets," I mean /Film's own Chris Evangelista and me — are practically begging for Seyfried to get an Oscar for "You Can See Everything" as a supporting actress, partly to make up for "Ann Lee" and partly because she's the key to the entire documentary. Obviously, the prospect is ... tricky. Nobody has ever gotten an acting nomination at the Academy Awards for a documentary before, but at the same time, nobody has ever made a documentary quite like this.

Seyfried is just far enough away from Elizabeth Holmes' brand of manipulation to be the sole voice of reason of sorts in "You Can See Everything," even questioning if Fielder can remain impartial — but she's also never met Holmes, making her presence all the more important in that she can remain somewhat objective. I can't say the same for Abbott. It's not his fault, but his job isn't to try to figure out how Billy Evans' mind works (and thank god for Abbott's sake, because that's not something I'd personally care to delve into). Seyfried, though, is this movie's highlight (which was equally true of "Ann Lee"), and I genuinely hope that she enters the awards conversation in a real way for "You Can See Everything" after last year's snub. As for "The Testament of Ann Lee," you can stream it on Hulu.