"Gibney's film portrays Holmes as an adept liar with a Calvinist work ethic. Yet what the story truly exposes is not an ingenious scammer, but the failures of a system that has come to prize the notion of disruption–where breaking the rules, or hacking the system, is thought an implicit moral good–at all costs. It's a parable not of individual brilliance, but of systemic stupidity.
Hettie O'Brien at New Statesman reviews the documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
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