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

| Jul 15, 2020

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 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

There's no sight sadder than young people who simply wanted to party being crushingly let down.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

This alone is evidence of McFarland's magisterial ability to swindle. While his previous partners' testimonies attest to McFarland's crimes, his former colleagues' insistence on his charisma and charm is universal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2019

A giddy cocktail of schadenfreude and open-mouthed horror drives this enthralling documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2019

An expertly crafted exploration of the crass zenith of influencer culture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2019

Chris Smith's chronicle of the catastrophic event ought to be the schadenfreude event of the year, and for a while it is.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2019

[An] elegantly constructed takedown.

| Jan 18, 2019

If you love a story of absolute, no-holds-barred, extravagant disaster, you'll probably want to watch both. But if you just want a better idea of what the heck happened here, the truth is that either film will serve.

| Jan 18, 2019

[Fyre] is a story of shallow excess-how we're in an era in which how something looks is more important than what it actually is-but it's also a reminder that everything still has a cost.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2019

If the Hulu-produced [Fyre Fraud] didn't exist, Netflix's [FYRE] would be a fully worthwhile presentation. But Hulu's [Fire Fraud] does exist, and it is decidedly better.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 18, 2019

What's most haunting about the movie isn't the transformation itself so much as the emptiness of the desires that fuel it-essentially the same empty desires that both propelled McFarland and destroyed him.

| Jan 17, 2019

Still, "Fyre Fraud" edges out Netflix's film by stepping back and delivering on the stronger, more despairing theme here, which is very clearly this: Society... is losing its ability to sense a snake in the grass.

| Jan 17, 2019

As Fyre makes painfully clear, just about everyone involved with the project had to have known they were tumbling down a mountain at rapid speed and headed for almost guaranteed scandal and disaster

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 17, 2019