Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A true-crime comedy exploring a failed music festival turned internet meme at the nexus of social media influence, late-stage capitalism, and morality in the post-truth era.
Fyre Fraud is a solid documentary covering the infamous Fyre Festival collapse, benefiting from an interview with Billy McFarland himself, which gives it a slight edge over its rival documentary. However, it covers broadly familiar ground in terms of true-crime documentary structure, and its cinematography is standard talking-heads fare. The framing around social media influence and late-stage capitalism adds some conceptual texture but doesn't fully elevate it above typical doc conventions. The ending is competent but unsurprising given the well-known outcome of events.