An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.... (Full plot summary below)
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An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.
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| The New York TimesManohla DargisIt’s a tough, smart, impressive movie, and one of its virtues is that Walker, a British transplant to Los Angeles, doesn’t seem to have figured it all out before she started shooting. |
| San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussMixing in citizens’ harrowing cellphone footage and heartbreaking emergency call recordings, Walker’s teams immerse us in the flaming terror as few features have before. |
| Slant MagazineMark JenkinsLucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions. |
| TheWrapWilliam BibbianiIt’s a film about hubris, selfishness, failed bureaucracies, and a stubborn inability to learn from past mistakes. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoWalker’s film might have worked better as a docuseries—one feels its two-hour length—and she has a habit of over-writing some of the narration, but it’s still a detailed piece of work, a surprising angle on a terrifying new reality about living in certain parts of the world, and an inquiry as to whether or not we’re going to do anything about it. |
