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Set us as preferred Before “You Can See Everything” and before “The Dropout,” there was “The Inventor.”Subtitled “Out for Blood in Silicon Valley,” Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and the rise and fall of her biotech company Theranos, which she vowed would revolutionize the blood-testing industry, is attracting renewed attention in the wake of the explosive response to “You Can See Everything.”The new documentary, which captures the former CEO’s final days of freedom before beginning an 11-year prison sentence, presents Holmes and her partner Billy Evans in twisty, often uncomfortable interactions with comedian and co-director Nathan Fielder as he presses them about their relationship and her past with Theranos.Since its premiere last week and subsequent successful box office, awards season buzz has been escalating around the film, Fielder and co-director Lance Oppenheim.While “You Can See Everything” is primarily an intimate portrait of an emotional Holmes at home with Evans and their two young children, “The Inventor,” which premiered on HBO in 2019, provides a different landscape, showing a laser-focused Holmes carrying out her singular directive to make Theranos a dominant force in preventive medicine.
Movies The year’s most discussable film is finally in theaters and its many bizarre surprises don’t disappoint.Hold off on reading this until after you see it.Gibney shows the photogenic Stanford dropout’s evolution into a major celebrity and tech power broker, rubbing shoulders with world leaders.
Her quirks of wearing only black turtlenecks and her apparent disinterest in anything not related to her medical quest (“I don’t have any secrets,” she says early in the film) are also on full display.The attention surrounding Holmes also sparke...