Review: In ‘The Inventor,’ you can’t know Elizabeth Holmes’s secrets. And yet you can’t turn away
In a new documentary, the secret Elizabeth Holmes keeps — and the question left maddeningly unanswered — is by far the most compelling: Just who is Elizabeth Holmes?
I don’t have many secrets,” says Elizabeth Holmes, architect of the most fascinating modern fraud not involving Ja Rule, in the opening moments of a new documentary. That proves to be quite an understatement over the ensuing two hours, which reveal the greed and grift that turned Holmes’s company, Theranos, from a multibillion-dollar cause celebre into a cautionary tale of Silicon Valley hubris.
But the secret she keeps — and the question left maddeningly unanswered
