The Armstrong Lie
A documentary following the world-famous cyclist Lance Amstrong from his popularity rise to the ultimate fall standing out in the history of professional sports when he was accused of using doping in 2012.
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May 16, 2014
[A]nother brilliant documentary from the ever-incisive Alex Gibney... not about cycling but the power of celebrity...
May 15, 2014
The lie is the least of it in Gibney's personal documentary
March 18, 2014
INCISIVE as it is infuriating, The Armstrong Lie chronicles the greatest fraud ever perpetuated in the history of organised sport.
October 10, 2014
( ... ) a riveting, insider's view of the unravelling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. Alex Gibney's two-hour movie races by in what feels like minutes.
November 29, 2013
"The Armstrong Lie" simply offers up the Armstrong lie. Sorry, but we've all already heard that one.
November 01, 2014
The Armstrong Lie has several insightful moments but is most interesting in how it shows us a filmmaker usually committed to finding the absolute truth in his subjects, suffering when he comes across a story where lies and truth constantly intertwine.
November 29, 2013
The Armstrong Lie is eye-opening and myth-shattering and more than a little depressing.
December 12, 2013
While the movie includes enough details about the physiology, strategy and marketing of bike racing to satisfy some of our curiosity, other questions remain unanswered.
June 05, 2014
The Armstrong Lie is a very good sports documentary, but doesn't reach far enough to become one of the best nonfiction films of the year.
December 05, 2013
The tale has plenty of resonance off the race course. As sportswriter Dan Coyle says in the film, "It's not a story about doping, it's a story about power."
November 28, 2013
Gibney gives the truth as full an airing as seems humanly possible, given that the subject is a world-class liar.
January 28, 2014
What will take your breath away is how viciously Armstrong crushed and humiliated anyone who dared to make allegations against him,
