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| HULU | Release Date: January 14, 2019 |
Summary:
The documentary about the Fyre Festival that was not as promised was written and directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason features archive footage and an interview with Billy McFarland, the creator of the festival (and jailed for fraud related to it).
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Positive:
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Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
RogerEbert.com
Jan 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Fyre Fraud does not just dunk on McFarland, Ja Rule, and anyone who might be complicit--they’re clowns already, their plainly not-smart choices and astounding arrogance making for super-size schadenfreude. More persuasively, it's a damnation of the mentality that helped make it possible, calling out a culture that progressively puts more value into how you make yourself look online.
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Jan 16, 2019
Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Whatever the Hulu film may have paid McFarland for an interview, it didn’t get its money worth. 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 (not just those who were born in the 1980s or ’90s) is losing its ability to sense a snake in the grass. Both “Fyre Fraud” and “Fyre” should give any viewer pause to reflect--and reflect again--on the degree to which we’re all being had.
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Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Fyre Fraud, despite its efforts to go after the larger picture, ends up being a frothier and more light-hearted affair, replete with stock photo and cartoon cutaways overlaid with jaunty music cues, overemphasizing the absurdity Fyre has the confidence to know is hardwired into its narrative. [But it is] a helpful reminder that, like so many stories, one account can’t contain the whole truth.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Despite Fyre Fraud’s unique access, the insights into McFarland tend to come from other sources. As far as Billy McFarland is concerned, his mistake was that he dreamed too big and got in over his head. ... 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 and less inclined to punctuate its insights with Family Guy clips.
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Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Fyre Fraud leans on montages and step-by-step explanations of how Instagram celebrities monetize their sponsored posts and how easily McFarland could use that network to create an event he had no qualifications to run. The Hulu film also has a strange animus toward millennials and is fond of using pop-culture clips to explain simple concepts. ... [Billy McFarland's] involvement gives the Hulu documentary a particularly icky edge.
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May 12, 2019
Why does metacritic have this page and a season one page. Their new interface seems broken.
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