Bigger, Stronger, Faster*: Critic Reviews

A 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.

Bigger, 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.

The 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.

A hugely entertaining personal documentary about what steroids mean to American pop culture.

Bell finds the epitome of that tragedy in his own family and, in his first film, digs unflinchingly at its roots.

Powerful stuff.

By making this journey personal, a powerful vulnerability permeates the film.

...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.

This movie is remarkable in that it seems to be interested only in facts.

Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is that rare film that truly challenges its audience.

Smart, touching and enlightening, a combination that makes Bigger, Stronger, Faster the best documentary of the year so far.

A thoughtful, informative and thoroughly entertaining examination of the role of performance-enhancing drugs in modern life.

More scrupulously reported than your average Michael Moore film but every bit as entertaining.

There'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.

A lively and incisive look into the nation's growing preoccupation with pumped-up superlatives.

It'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.

A dangerous side effect of being a 'true' American.

It raises big, intriguing questions that rarely, if ever, come up in the hubbub about steroid use in professional athletics, particularly Major League Baseball.

Chris Bell's very personal documentary, tracking how steroid use influenced his body building family's game, health and interpersonal relationships, is neither an apology nor a hard-lined expose about doping.

If steroids were outlawed, only outlaws would have steroids

This is one of the best documentary films of 2008, along with 'Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.'

Though somewhat repetitive and clunky, Chris Bell's Bigger Stronger Faster deserves credit for presenting a fairly evenhanded examination of steroids & their threat to the integrity of the country's sports industry.

A matter-of-fact funny and clever in-depth look at steroid use in modern-day America.

A wide-ranging look at the use of performance-enhancing drugs in America

Pessoal como Moore (incluindo um momento Roger and Me com Schwarzenegger) e auto-referencial como Spurlock (mas mais honesto), Bell cria um filme que levanta questoes realmente relevantes sobre a caca as bruxas relativa ao uso de esteroides.