[3] The film was financed within three days, and director Ian Bonhôte added, "We wanted to make a really respectful cinematic version of Lee’s story".

The website's critical consensus reads, "McQueen offers an intimate, well-sourced, and overall moving look at a young life and brilliant career that were tragically cut short.

[5] Peter Travers of the Rolling Stone wrote, "McQueen is an empathetic, ravishing and scorchingly outspoken look at why, eight years after his death, he still leaves us transfixed".

[6] Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post wrote, "McQueen” makes the case that its subject was an artist whose clay was clothing.

[7] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "If you live and die for fashion, a documentary called “McQueen” could tell only one story, that of designer Alexander McQueen, whose extraordinary gifts, dark preoccupations and tragic death make for a completely engrossing, compulsively watchable film".