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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91ConsequenceClint WorthingtonConsequenceClint 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.
- 88Slant MagazineChris BarsantiSlant MagazineChris BarsantiChris Smith’s documentary about the 2017 Fyre Festival implosion resists the urge to revel in cheap social media schadenfreude.
- 88TV Guide MagazineMalcolm VenableTV Guide MagazineMalcolm VenableIt's a defining true crime story for the Internet age.
- 88RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.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.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattThe movie is more than a bonfire of the inanities; it’s a shrewd indictment of a dream gone spectacularly, criminally wrong.
- 82IGNMatt FowlerIGNMatt 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.
- Fyre 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.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyNew York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyFyre director Chris Smith (American Movie and The Yes Men) has experience crafting stories about guys with big dreams and the capacity to pull off long cons, and he has a great instinct for finding the most damning anecdotes.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichReaping the benefits of a generation that compulsively records the evidence of their crimes, Fyre exploits a motherlode of private footage that festival mastermind Billy McFarland commissioned throughout the process. It’s less of a snarky recap than a clinical post-mortem.
- 75The PlaylistGary GarrisonThe 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.