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  • Rated R
  • 2hr
  • 81

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Lucy Walker

Release Date:

Aug 6, 2021

Runtime:

2hr

Synopsis

Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker’s character-driven, verité documentary captures the horror and heroism of the deadliest week of wildfires in California history and explores the causes and solutions of a global crisis that is quite literally burning our world to the ground.

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90
Aug 5, 2021

It’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.

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Metacritic review by Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
81
Aug 5, 2021

It’s a film about hubris, selfishness, failed bureaucracies, and a stubborn inability to learn from past mistakes.

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Metacritic review by William Bibbiani
William Bibbiani
TheWrap
75
Aug 4, 2021

Lucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions.

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Metacritic review by Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins
Slant Magazine
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