Review: 'The Inventor' is a coolly appalling portrait of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal
As a quick glance at recent headlines will remind you - a staggering college admissions scandal, a wave of indictments in the cases of Paul Manafort and Jussie Smollett - we are living in deeply fraudulent times. But if there are few people or institutions worthy of our trust anymore, perhaps we can still trust that, eventually, Alex Gibney will get around to making sense of it all. Over the course of his unflagging, indispensable career he has churned out documentaries on Scientology and Enron, Lance Armstrong and Casino Jack - individual case studies in a rich and fascinating investigation of the American hustler at work.
Gibney approaches his subjects with
