[8] The film includes footage from Larry King Live, The Daily Show, and the South Park episode "A Scause for Applause".

[10] In his review for The Observer, Mark Kermode gave the film 4 stars out of 5, writing: "Armstrong comes across as both admirably resilient and frighteningly selfish, his treatment of those who crossed him … tellingly callous, his refusal to be beaten bizarrely engaging.

"[12] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, writing: "The movie rambles at two-plus hours, but the provocation never stops.

"[14] Boyd van Hoeij of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "A quite absorbing but never riveting or revelatory overview of Armstrong's career and testy personality.

"[16] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian also gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, describing it as "a striking but flawed documentary", and writing: "the slippery doper hedges his general admission with all sorts of hints that this matter wasn't quite what his accusers have said, and Gibney circles around his man, never quite going in for the kill.