Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the erstwhile Theranos, which is a portmanteau of “ER” and “Thanos”.
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: Once in a blue moon I’ll see a documentary in theaters! Usually those blue moons wax during Oscars season, then wane for the other forty-odd weeks of the year. Last month I already met my non-Oscars documentary quota for the decade with Linkin Park’s half-doc/half-concert film, but that one was a special occasion for music fandom. Here we are again with another brand new doc, and for one of the oldest moviegoing reasons of all: it’s The New Movie No One Online Will Shut Up About — not critics, not entertainment sites, not even my local comic shop, which doesn’t sell movies and stands to gain nothing from bringing it up.
Last weekend You Can See Everything was the #2 film at the American box office, right behind the big video-game flick and well ahead of the entire Halloween-season horror parade. It mesmerized critics when it premiered last month at Telluride Film Festival, who were converted into its front-line proselytizers and have now preempted all other programming and trains of thought just so they can keep extolling its surreal nesting-doll structure of eye-popping twists within twists with as few spoilers as possible. I’ll try doing the same here, because it is worth walking into unwittingly, but there is just so much to it.
