Apple Cider Vinegar review: Necessary viewing in an era of woo-woo misinformation and health scammers

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Enter: Belle Gibson, the real-life subject of Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar. We follow Belle’s story from rags to riches to rags, alongside investigative journalists who work to reveal the real story of this high scammer, the suffering of one of her followers Lucy, and the uneasy life and career of Milla – a Queensland blogger who believes she is beating cancer with a strict juice diet and coffee enemas. Kaitlyn Dever in wellness drama ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ All of this paints an appropriately grim picture of women’s culture in the 2010s: were we too dumb, too career-obsessed, too self-interested to make sense of anything? Apple Cider Vinegar is a timely, smart commission; Belle’s story was once a scandal, but is terrifyingly mundane in an anti-expert, post-truth world.