A thoughtful, informative and thoroughly entertaining examination of the role of performance-enhancing drugs in modern life.
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:19
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is a fascinating, informative, entertaining and especially introspective account of the American 'enhancement' culture.
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Top CriticA lively and incisive look into the nation's growing preoccupation with pumped-up superlatives.
06/23/08
Top CriticSmart, touching and enlightening, a combination that makes Bigger, Stronger, Faster the best documentary of the year so far.
06/13/08
Top CriticBy making this journey personal, a powerful vulnerability permeates the film.
06/13/08
Top CriticIt'll shake up your beliefs not just about steroids but about competition, hypocrisy, body obsession and American notions of masculinity.
06/09/08
Top CriticBell posits that their disillusionment is a side effect of being American and he may well be right.
06/06/08
Top CriticBigger, Stronger, Faster* is that rare film that truly challenges its audience.
06/06/08
Top CriticA hugely entertaining personal documentary about what steroids mean to American pop culture.
06/06/08
Top CriticThis movie is remarkable in that it seems to be interested only in facts.
06/06/08
Top CriticThe film isn't quite a memoir; it's also a platform to branch off into other areas, briskly and informatively and with a good deal of clearheadedness.
06/05/08
Top CriticThere's been a glut of pointless first- person documentaries lately, but newcomer Christopher Bell has a legitimate personal take in his film about Americans who use anabolic steroids.
05/30/08
Top CriticPowerful stuff.
05/30/08
Top CriticIt's a fascinating and unexpectedly profound and melancholy meditation on what we have become as a country and on the misguided obsessions that made us this way.
05/30/08
Top CriticBigger, Stronger, Faster* left me convinced that the steroid scandals will abate as the drugs are reluctantly accepted as inevitable products of a continuing revolution in biotechnology.
05/30/08
Top CriticThe performance-enhancing quality behind this muscular movie is director Chris Bell's willingness to go far beyond the call of duty.
05/29/08
Top CriticBell finds the epitome of that tragedy in his own family and, in his first film, digs unflinchingly at its roots.
05/27/08
Top Critic...manages to be two films at once: One is an informative portrait of a power-hungry society; the other is an intensely gripping narrative of personal growth.
05/27/08
Top CriticA good documentary will take you places you didn't plan to go, but I didn't really expect that from Bigger, Stronger, Faster, an incisive and compulsively watchable look at America's love affair with steroids.
05/23/08
Top CriticMore scrupulously reported than your average Michael Moore film but every bit as entertaining.
01/22/08
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