Fresh
What will take your breath away is how viciously Armstrong crushed and humiliated anyone who dared to make allegations against him,
Cath Clarke, Time Out
Overview
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong’s confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”
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83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
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."
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
"The Armstrong Lie" simply offers up the Armstrong lie. Sorry, but we've all already heard that one.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
The Armstrong Lie is eye-opening and myth-shattering and more than a little depressing.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
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