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Fyre

2019

Chris Smith

Documentary, Self: Billy McFarland, Ja Rule

6.5

3,581

Documentary An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival.

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"What 'Fyre' loses in comprehensiveness, it makes up for in immediacy (...) If 'Fyre' is like a flaming car crash, you can’t help but root for all the victims to get singed"	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"The film’s ace is how it contrasts the 'official' high-resolution material with salvaged social media content and genuinely startling behind-the-scenes footage (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"Smith's film doesn't lack for dark humor (...) Viscerally satisfying"	POS
United States	Chris Barsanti Slant	"Smith covers the known part of the fiasco in sharp detail (...) He invests the story with a humanity that nearly all the earlier news coverage of the debacle had missed (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Gary Garrison The Playlist	"A fascinating study of the man behind the infamous music festival disaster (...) Part of what makes 'Fyre' so compelling (...) is the cast of characters that Chris Smith (...) wrangled together to tell the story."	POS
United States	Matt Singer Screen Crush	"The film is both compulsively watchable and (...) incredibly nightmarish (...) [It] actually does a very good job of explaining how the festival got botched so badly"	POS
United States	Judy Berman Time	"[Smith] tends to let his subjects reveal themselves without distracting stylistic flourishes—an approach that’s ideally suited to the Fyre story"	POS
United States	Matt Fowler IGN	"'FYRE' delivers greatly on the delight in the misfortune of the wealthy and the shallow that we all expect and crave, but it also smartly doesn't hang its hat on it."	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"The perfect melding of groundwork-laying, commentary, comedy, tragedy and longform cinejournalism (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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