Ranking August 2017's Movies From Worst To Best

4. Icarus

Icarus Netflix
Netflix

RottenTomatoes Score: 93% (7.3/10)

Box Office: Icarus was released straight to Netflix.

Verdict: One of the most compelling and eye-opening Netflix documentaries to date, Icarus probes deep into the Russian Olympic doping program with absolutely shocking results.

Horrifying and totally fascinating all at once, the extent of the corruption and the dangerous means to which Russia has attempted to cover their tracks transforms the film from an initially cutesy novelty doc into something much more crucial and, indeed, journalistic.

With Russia's FIFA World Cup due to kick off next year, there really couldn't be a better time for this discussion to be crowbarred open, and director Bryan Fogel does so with an incredible amount of passion.

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