| HBO | Season Premiere Date: March 18, 2019 |
Summary:
Alex Gibney's documentary about how Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos' claims of a compact blood testing machine went from a Silicon Valley start-up worth $9 billion in 2014 to being cited by the SEC for "massive fraud" in 2016.
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Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Health & Lifestyle, Business, Documentary, Science
Season 1 Episodes
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Mar 21, 2019
Holmes commands the screen as if it belongs to her. She surely must have known all along that it would. Much of the footage here is of the dog-and-pony variety, once commissioned by Theranos and designed to sell the con. But it's so high-gloss--so weirdly hypnotic--that neither Gibney nor "The Inventor" can get to the real human behind the image. A shortcoming of the film? Sure, but the only one. Must watch.
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Mar 15, 2019
Mar 18, 2019
Feb 27, 2019
Like a lot of Gibney’s work, The Inventor functions most reliably as a fast-paced, involving summary, one occasionally enlivened by the little, revealing bursts of personality he captures from his various talking heads. But as in his Assange doc, We Steal Secrets, Gibney can’t entirely compensate for the (admittedly understandable) void at the center of his portrait—which is to say, for the fact that he couldn’t land an interview with his main subject.
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Mar 15, 2019
RogerEbert.com
Feb 27, 2019
In his fervor to sell you on this story and to keep you interested, some filmmaking techniques tend toward corny, like his opening voiceover telling you that this is “a compelling story,” or tacky graphics that get in your face, like a pair of dice being thrown to illustrate a metaphor. And as for the curiosity, sometimes it leads on tangents, taking away from the tightness. ... But when “The Inventor” is running through the small downfall of Theranos, the whistleblowers and Holmes’ own detachment from reality, the documentary can be fascinating.
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Mar 26, 2019
While it's definitely an interesting story, there just wasn't enough content to justify the 2hr run time. One hour would have been pushing it IMO.
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Air Date: March 18, 2019
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