81
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisIt’s a tough, smart, impressive movie, and one of its virtues is that Walker, a British transplant to Los Angeles, doesn’t seem to have figured it all out before she started shooting.
- 81TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam BibbianiIt’s a film about hubris, selfishness, failed bureaucracies, and a stubborn inability to learn from past mistakes.
- 75Slant MagazineMark JenkinsSlant MagazineMark JenkinsLucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussSan Francisco ChronicleBob StraussMixing in citizens’ harrowing cellphone footage and heartbreaking emergency call recordings, Walker’s teams immerse us in the flaming terror as few features have before.
- 75RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoWalker’s film might have worked better as a docuseries—one feels its two-hour length—and she has a habit of over-writing some of the narration, but it’s still a detailed piece of work, a surprising angle on a terrifying new reality about living in certain parts of the world, and an inquiry as to whether or not we’re going to do anything about it.