Icarus review – Netflix doping scandal doc is flawed but fascinating

Filmmaker Bryan Fogel stumbles upon state-sponsored doping in a sometimes clunky, but unquestionably revelatory documentaryFew film-makers have stumbled upon documentary gold in quite as fortuitous a fashion as Bryan Fogel, the man behind this revelatory account of Russia’s state-sponsored doping program. Primarily a playwright (he wrote an off-Broadway comedy called Jewtopia), Fogel is also a keen amateur cyclist and, in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal, set out to prove just how e