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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Jan 2019

Fyre is primarily a journalistic exhumation of the Fyre Festival’s ridiculous excesses…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Slate (2,081) on 17 Jan 2019

Neither movie is perfect, and each underlines the other’s flaws, but if you’re watching one, watch Fyre, which is both less self-righteous…

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By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Jan 2019

Much 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…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 16 Jan 2019

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

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Jan 2019

The jaw is meant to and does often drop, and not just because of McFarland. Two words: Ja Rule…

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By Jen Chaney (126) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 16 Jan 2019

Fyre director Chris Smith (American Movie and The Yes Men) has experience crafting stories about guys with big dreams and the capacity to pull…

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By Judy Berman (17) for Time (1,811) on 16 Jan 2019

Director Chris Smith (Jim & Andy, American Movie) tends to let his subjects reveal themselves without distracting stylistic flourishes—an…

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By Daniel D'addario (17) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Jan 2019

Fyre, in the end, understands that the McFarlands of the world, changing the culture online but also wreaking havoc in the very real world,…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for The New York Times (9,847) on 16 Jan 2019

Fyre needs another layer. You can locate in it this national moment of brashness and effrontery…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 15 Jan 2019

It’s a gripping, fascinating watch, an elegantly assembled portrait of the end result of influencer culture and late-stage capitalism –…

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By Malcolm Venable (4) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 15 Jan 2019

It's a defining true crime story for the Internet age…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 15 Jan 2019

Chris Smith’s documentary about the 2017 Fyre Festival implosion resists the urge to revel in cheap social media schadenfreude…

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By Gary Garrison (43) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Jan 2019

In 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…

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By Matt Fowler (109) for IGN (1,013) on 14 Jan 2019

Fyre 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…

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By Adrian Horton (60) for The Guardian (2,969) on 14 Jan 2019

Fyre allows you to marvel, and to feel – how spectacular the hubris, how gross the unfairness – while reminding that whether you bought…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 14 Jan 2019

Reaping the benefits of a generation that compulsively records the evidence of their crimes, Fyre exploits a motherlode of private footage…

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