With hijinks and true-to-life depictions of sex, drugs, and conflicting personalities amongst the specifically gay male community, Fire Island is a treat full of humor and romance.

| Jul 25, 2023

Much like the source material, there’s a whole lot of seriousness in this seemingly fluffy love story, with discussions of racism, classism, and body dysmorphia swirling around the romantic tension Austen is still revered for centuries later..

| Jun 20, 2023

Fire Island still triumphs as a playful and sometimes heartwarming movie, even if it doesn’t quite climb out of the sandpit it dug for itself...

| Sep 13, 2022

Fire Island is a riotous modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice that simultaneously offers revolutionary representation for diverse LGBTQ+ leads in romcoms.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

The characters deserve more autonomy: they're a likeable bunch and the film's best asset.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

I think Joel Kim Booster is my soul mate

| Aug 4, 2022

It was SO close to being f*cking great

| Aug 4, 2022

Every generation deserves its own adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and Gen Z got a gem in Fire Island.

| Jul 29, 2022

Let’s make the 2020s the era of adaptations of Shakespeare and Austen works but starring a bunch of messy millennial queers.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 26, 2022

Well cast throughout, Fire Island also provides a chance for comedian Margaret Cho to shine.

| Jul 11, 2022

Fire Island fits perfectly into the director’s established mode of exploring how personalities interact with the environments in which they find themselves.

| Jun 30, 2022

In relocating the Jane Austen classic to a contemporary vacation haven, Fire Island explores intersecting issues of race and class in the gay community.

| Jun 28, 2022

This movie is heartfelt and hilarious; you’ll laugh a ton and shed a tear or two, all while having one hell of a good time. And really, why else would you go to Fire Island?

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 28, 2022

Not since Clueless has a Jane Austen adaptation been so funny, modern and keenly aware of its conventions.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2022

If only this “Pride and Prejudice” riff had as firm a handle on its own pride and prejudices. In line with its own lack of self-awareness, “Fire Island” reveals startling conventionality and even conservativeness in its political and aesthetic approach.

| Jun 26, 2022

The movie is wildly enthusiastic about sex ... but it doesn’t fall into cartoonish raunchiness like so many other sex comedies do.

| Jun 21, 2022

A gorgeous ode to the power of friendship and a rom-com that's as genuinely funny as it is charmingly romantic, 'Fire Island' is a total delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2022

A modern day swinging gay rom/com.

| Original Score: B | Jun 18, 2022

So often confined to being a stereotype, [Joel Kim] Booster and director Andrew Ahn have embraced all facets of what makes queer people so fabulously entertaining (yes, perhaps some of the stereotypes are true) and complicatedly deep.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2022

The “gay rom-com” we’ve been waiting for, one that is so comfortable and genuine in its own skin that it’s free to rise above both parts of that label to become simply a great movie.

| Jun 17, 2022