Billy McFarland promised a luxury music festival on a private Bahamian island and delivered wet mattresses, cheese sandwiches and chaos. Fyre is the definitive document of influencer-era grift, and it never stops being astonishing.

What makes the film so compelling is the footage itself. Because the marketing agency was filming everything, we watch the disaster unfold in real time — the delusion, the lies, the moment everyone on the ground knew it was over and kept going anyway.

The interviews with the local workers who were left unpaid are the film's moral centre. Beneath the schadenfreude and the memes, real people lost real money, and the documentary never lets you forget it.

Slick, infuriating and darkly funny, Fyre is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand how hype became a business model.