Bad Blood / The Inventor

Waited to watch Gibney’s THE INVENTOR until I’d read Carreyrou’s BAD BLOOD and I’m not entirely sure that that was fair to Gibney’s effort: whereas BAD BLOOD was a riveting page-turner (though not devoid of structural and pacing issues), THE INVENTOR, in its order of absorption, felt like little more than a companion film: I don’t know any more about Elizabeth Holmes’s motives – Gibney takes a “here’s what happened, draw your own conclusion” approach – and the genesis of her remarkable gift f...