Any concern that Lance will be a four-hour apology tour designed to elicit sympathy for its disgraced subject is quickly squashed by its opening minutes.

Lance allows a deeper understanding of this very complex public figure.

Every word he says in the documentary feels either lawyered to death or endlessly rehearsed over countless solitary bike rides.

Nothing in the film absolves Lance Armstrong of blame, but nothing condemns him to life as a pariah, either.