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An Acclaimed Documentary About Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Surges On Streaming

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Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos have come up quite a lot over the past few weeks, especially with "You Can See Everything," the new A24 documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, arriving in theaters on October 16. Now, an older documentary about Holmes is pulling in viewers, too. Alex Gibney's "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley" is now No. 10 on HBO Max's top 10 chart in the U.S., more than seven years after it first aired.

"The Inventor" premiered on HBO in March 2019, well before Holmes went to trial. Gibney's documentary follows Holmes from the early days of Theranos through its collapse, and most of the story is told by people who worked at the company or covered it, including whistleblowers Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung, and John Carreyrou, who wrote "Bad Blood" about Theranos.

The documentary has a 78% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes from 60 reviews, and Gibney also took home a Writers Guild award for documentary screenplay for it.…

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