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An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival.
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| Film ThreatChuck FosterDocumentaries by nature are utilitarian, telling a story from real events as they happen with little expectation of aesthetic value. Once again, Smith ups the ante, delivering a film that is not only intellectually stimulating but visually as well. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenMuch stranger than fiction, and yet it tells a story that makes perfect sense in the age of influencers and the general need to be seen. |
| Consequence of SoundClint WorthingtonIt’s a gripping, fascinating watch, an elegantly assembled portrait of the end result of influencer culture and late-stage capitalism – the blind leading the blind into an empty, insubstantial image of success and luxury that turns out to be nothing but smoke. |
| TV Guide MagazineMalcolm VenableIt's a defining true crime story for the Internet age. |
| Slant MagazineChris BarsantiChris Smith’s documentary about the 2017 Fyre Festival implosion resists the urge to revel in cheap social media schadenfreude. |
| The PlaylistGary GarrisonIn being such a simple, unshowy film, it avoids asking too many questions or digging for the larger truths writ large in the story of Fyre about our society, about celebrity and influencers and Instagram, and the patently manufactured lives that we’re taught to believe we can have. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAs Fyre makes painfully clear, just about everyone involved with the project — including the co-founders — had to have known they were tumbling down a mountain at rapid speed and headed for almost guaranteed scandal and disaster, yet everyone kept on working, as if the denial would somehow soften the blow. |
| The A.V. ClubAlex McLevyFyre is the stronger, more worthwhile documentary, but its counterpart is a helpful reminder that, like so many stories, one account can’t contain the whole truth. |
| The GuardianAdrian HortonFyre allows you to marvel, and to feel – how spectacular the hubris, how gross the unfairness – while reminding that whether you bought a ticket or not, you were the audience the whole time. |
| IGNMatt FowlerFyre 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. It's mostly about the actual well-intentioned people involved in this fiasco and how anyone can be suckered into a vision or dream when no one in a collective is willing to speak out as a lone voice of reason. |
