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Icarus Reviews
If you want insight into cheating in sports and the complicated reasons why it happens over and over, Icarus will open your eyes as never before. It is essential viewing for anyone interested in athletics or competitive sports of any type.
| Aug 29, 2017
It's fair, then, to call Icarus a coup for a first-time documentarian, the product of both dumb luck and a strange rapport between Fogel and Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov.
| Aug 10, 2017
Fogel's willingness to follow a yarn that starts in one location before veering into entirely different narrative territory yields fascinating and entertaining results.
| Aug 10, 2017
Imagine a version of Morgan Sperlock's Super Size Me in which, instead of merely bloating up, Sperlock entered into an uneasy friendship with an evil clown version of Ronald McDonald, and you'll get a sense of this doc's unexpected depth.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2017
Icarus may be the best nonfiction movie of the year.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 4, 2017
Rodchenkov proves a surprisingly lovable personality --- wry, funny, and gregarious. But things get dark and dangerous when the Russian Olympic doping program is exposed and Rodchenkov fears that he might be in a position of knowing too much.
| Aug 4, 2017
The unwieldiness is part and parcel of the movie's ragged appeal. None of this was by design.
| Aug 4, 2017
It's hard to deny the power of Icarus's message and the remarkable nature of its delivery.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2017
A trivial Super Size Me-style premise (take performance-enhancing drugs on camera and see if they work!) becomes something far deeper in this thrilling anti-doping documentary from Bryan Fogel.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2017
The film moves into more interesting terrain when it follows the odyssey of Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 4, 2017
An imperfect film ... but the pacing of the final 3/4s of Icarus is remarkable, as we watch a man's life and safety circle the drain.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2017
For those who cherish honesty, fair play, and upright athletic competition, the film is a must-see expos about systematic corruption and failure on both sides of the doping issue.
| Aug 3, 2017
Mr. Fogel could be considered either daring or foolhardy for his initial plan. But his work with Dr. Rodchenkov is levelheaded, and his documentary illuminating.
| Aug 3, 2017
Icarus tells such an eye-opening story that it almost doesn't matter when the storytelling itself gets a little sloppy.
| Original Score: B | Aug 3, 2017
A real-life absurdist thriller that, in its electric coverage of one Russian scandal, can't help but illuminate another ongoing one.
| Aug 1, 2017
A routinely assembled mlange of provocative material consistently undone by its maker's perplexing need to foist himself into the center of every conversation.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 30, 2017
As I am sure it will when the film stuns viewers beyond those at Sundance, Icarus relies on the element of surprise for one of its most rewarding attributes.
| Jan 26, 2017
A wildly timely movie for our current moment, as issues of cheating, illegitimacy and geopolitical bullies take center stage.
| Jan 20, 2017
While Icarus technically doesn't break any news, it certainly scores many points by showing a diabolical wizard so surprisingly laying his secrets on the table.
| Jan 20, 2017