A Critic Says the Oscar Question Is Beside the Point in ‘You Can See Everything’
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Awards pundits have been asking whether Amanda Seyfried, the linchpin of the hybrid documentary ‘You Can See Everything,’ can be nominated for or win an acting Oscar. The critic’s view is that the question is an amusing thought experiment and more than a little beside the point.
The more interesting thing, in that view, is that Seyfried allows herself to be seen thinking through a conundrum as herself and falling short of answers. After Holmes and her husband Billy Evans, she is the documentary’s other subject.
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Calling her appearance solely acting misses the rawness; the real charge is watching her think in real time and fall short of answers.
Still, the film has her literally acting, and the critic calls those parts riveting on their own terms; the Oscar question is narrower than the movie, not silly.