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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

2019

Alex Gibney

Documentary, Self: Elizabeth Holmes

6.5

733

Documentary Elizabeth Holmes arrived in Silicon Valley with a revolutionary medical invention. She called it “the Edison”: a small, hyper-sophisticated black box that performed 200 tests in minutes, all from a single drop of blood. Needles, laboratories, and the select few companies that controlled them would become instantly obsolete. Like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Thomas Edison himself, Holmes intended to tear down and revolutionize an ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"[Gibney] unpacks a complicated story in a briskly compelling narrative enlivened with sharp interviews, resourceful footage and terrific computer graphics."	POS
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"[It] is more of a second-degree assault, scoring a few direct hits and a fair amount of whiffing at what proves to be a vaporous target."	POS
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"It’s an interesting idea, but 'The Inventor' ultimately can’t decide if it’s about the specific (...) or the phenomenology of scams like Theranos (...) Any attempts to go bigger-picture feel surface-level and abbreviated."	NEU
United States	Sharon Waxman The Wrap	"[Gibney] does a great job of letting Holmes tell her own story, weaving footage of her rallying her employees with a grand vision."	POS
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"'The Inventor' is at its best when it looks at how Holmes conned respectable figures who bought into her narrative rather than taking a hard look at the data"	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"'The Inventor' is ultimately more of an information delivery system than a fully satisfying work of cinema (...) [It] never quite manages to crack the porcelain surface of Holmes' facade (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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