Bad Blood

In the early 1980s, a brilliant but unstable scientist, Elizabeth Holmes, founds Theranos, a revolutionary blood-testing company. She attracts immense investment and media attention, promising to diagnose diseases with a single drop of blood. However, as the company faces intense scrutiny, the facade of innovation begins to crumble, revealing a dangerous web of deceit and fraud at its core.

Bad Blood received generally positive reviews, with critics praising Anya Taylor-Joy's performance and the film's suspenseful portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes's rise and fall. However, some found the pacing uneven and the narrative a bit too similar to other recent portrayals of Silicon Valley fraud.

• Anya Taylor-Joy delivers a captivating performance as the ambitious and deceptive Elizabeth Holmes.

• The film effectively captures the zeitgeist of Silicon Valley ambition and the allure of disruptive technology.

• While suspenseful, the narrative occasionally suffers from predictable plot points and a familiar tone.

Google audience: Viewers appreciated the compelling performance by Anya Taylor-Joy and the exploration of a significant real-life scandal. Some noted that while engaging, the film treads similar ground to other accounts of the Theranos story.

The film was initially based on John Carreyrou's investigative journalism book of the same name, which extensively detailed the Theranos scandal.