Fyre provides exactly that kind of guilty euphoria, as director Chris Smith successfully paints an alarming picture of "entrepreneur" Billy McFarland's arrogance, arguably sociopath tendencies, and sheer deluded sense of desperation.

| Feb 3, 2022

Netflix's Fyre does a better job of placing you in the action, giving you a real feel for the chaos and an understanding of how so many people could've been roped into this doomed venture.

| Dec 29, 2021

Reminder that a con artist will always be a con artist even if they are caught.

| Nov 5, 2020

It's told with a great deal of style and energy, distilling the complex anatomy of a cock-up into just over 90 minutes of brisk, mixed bag storytelling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

It is astounding. It builds every 10 minutes in terms of its ludicrousness.

| Jul 15, 2020

A warning tale against the dangers of money, power, and social media. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 7, 2020

This jaw-dropping doco about the high-end music festival that become a low-ball debacle is an absolute must-see.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 27, 2020

Fyre doesn't flinch from how the Fyre Festival disaster hurt many of the people wrapped up in it. The incident may be a joke to many, but there was serious harm done beyond some millennials getting stuck on a beach.

| Feb 21, 2020

It engrosses and fascinates, but never quite engages on an emotional level.

| Dec 11, 2019

It's a gloriously watchable, often barely believable, documentary. You've simply got to see it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 11, 2019

At moments, its conspiratorial vibe feels like a friend sharing juicy gossip. But [Chris] Smith digs deeper to show the damage wrought by Fyre fest, and by [Billy] McFarland.

| Dec 11, 2019

The film provides more than enough footage of the failed festival, and the lead-up to it, to give the narrative some nail-chewing zip.

| Dec 11, 2019

Using deliberate pacing, creative narrative building, and wildly resourceful imagery, Fyre manages to transform its seemingly mundane subject into a tense slow burn with new consequences around every corner.

| Dec 11, 2019

[Chris] Smith brilliantly uses the stories from his subjects to create a multi-faceted, unpredictable villain who refused to give up even after such an epic failure.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 11, 2019

The movie is more than a bonfire of the inanities; it's a shrewd indictment of a dream gone spectacularly, criminally wrong.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 11, 2019

What "Fyre" loses in comprehensiveness, it makes up for in immediacy; [Chris] Smith is eager to strike while the iron is hot, but he gives us just enough breathing room to step back and make sense of what happened from a wider perspective.

| Original Score: B | Dec 11, 2019

It's the perfect melding of groundwork-laying, commentary, comedy, tragedy and longform cinejournalism. It's a three-alarm indictment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2019

I sat watching Fyre in a state of amused disbelief (while, yes, occasionally taking the Lord's name in vain). There's not too many places to see this much madness, ego, greed, and full-on stupidity on display at the same time.

| Dec 11, 2019

"Fyre" drills down on a story of [Billy] McFarland as a unitary figure of special malice, which feels both less interesting and less true.

| Dec 11, 2019

[The guests] don't come off really well... You couldn't help but laugh.

| Sep 14, 2019