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  • 2019
  • TV-14
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 59 m
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  • TV-14
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  • 1 h 59 m

Summary Alex Gibney directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was...

Directed By: Alex Gibney

Written By: Alex Gibney

  • 2019
  • TV-14
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 59 m
  • 2019
  • TV-14
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 59 m

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Alex Gibney directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes. In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was...

Directed By: Alex Gibney

Written By: Alex Gibney

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75
Mar 19, 2019
It's a study in deception, and as told by filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"), it's a disturbing and sad one.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 18, 2019
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley offers tidy, compelling, and continued proof of Gibney’s skills in the art of delineation.
By Blake Goble FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 18, 2019
With a popular subject, and some downright corny visual devices, The Inventor doesn’t knock it out of the park as neatly as some of Gibney’s other works. Still, it’s a worthwhile and damn entertaining addition to the developing Elizabeth Holmes canon that makes up for its flaws with undeniable watchability.
By Lena Wilson FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 14, 2019
The Inventor becomes less an exposé of white-collar crime than a study in the power of self-delusion and corporate megalomania. Gibney’s methods are simple but often brutally effective.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 15, 2019
Alex Gibney’s documentary tells a dramatic, if somewhat workmanlike, story of Silicon Valley hubris meeting old-fashioned scamming.
By Chris Barsanti FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 19, 2019
The fascinating story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal is frustratingly underexplored in Alex Gibney’s disappointing new film.
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Production Company HBO Documentary Films, Jigsaw Productions
Release Date Mar 15, 2019
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating TV-14
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Awards

Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination

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