Fyre (film)

Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is a 2019 American documentary film about Billy McFarland and the failed Fyre Festival of 2017, directed by Chris Smith. Smith approached Vice Media in August 2017 about creating a documentary about the failed festival. It was released on Netflix on January 18, 2019.

The film was co-produced by Jerry Media, the social media agency responsible for promoting the Fyre Festival.

Reception
On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 91% approval rating with an average rating of 7.71/10, based on 70 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Fyre smolders with agonizing tension when a party in paradise goes awry, but this slickly assembled documentary reserves its greatest horror for damning observations about the dangers of wealth." Metacritic, which uses a normalized average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

In reviewing Fyre and Fyre Fraud, a similar documentary that premiered on Hulu, The A.V. Club stated that "if you have to choose only one to watch, Fyre is the better film—though given the additional layers of intrigue surrounding these films, there's an argument to be made they work better as messy halves of a PR-damaged whole."

In April 2019, Netflix reported that 20 million households had watched the film during its first month of release.