Fire Island - Movie Reviews (2024)

With hijinks and true-to-life depictions of sex, drugs, and conflicting personalities amongst the specifically gay male community, Fire Island is a treat full of humor and romance.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2023

Much like the source material, there’s a whole lot of seriousness in this seemingly fluffy love story, with discussions of racism, classism, and body dysmorphia swirling around the romantic tension Austen is still revered for centuries later..

Full Review | Jun 20, 2023

Fire Island still triumphs as a playful and sometimes heartwarming movie, even if it doesn’t quite climb out of the sandpit it dug for itself...

Full Review | Sep 13, 2022

Fire Island is a riotous modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice that simultaneously offers revolutionary representation for diverse LGBTQ+ leads in romcoms.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

The characters deserve more autonomy: they're a likeable bunch and the film's best asset.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

I think Joel Kim Booster is my soul mate

Full Review | Aug 4, 2022

It was SO close to being f*cking great

Full Review | Aug 4, 2022

Every generation deserves its own adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and Gen Z got a gem in Fire Island.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2022

Let’s make the 2020s the era of adaptations of Shakespeare and Austen works but starring a bunch of messy millennial queers.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 26, 2022

Well cast throughout, Fire Island also provides a chance for comedian Margaret Cho to shine.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2022

Fire Island fits perfectly into the director’s established mode of exploring how personalities interact with the environments in which they find themselves.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2022

In relocating the Jane Austen classic to a contemporary vacation haven, Fire Island explores intersecting issues of race and class in the gay community.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2022

This movie is heartfelt and hilarious; you’ll laugh a ton and shed a tear or two, all while having one hell of a good time. And really, why else would you go to Fire Island?

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 28, 2022

Not since Clueless has a Jane Austen adaptation been so funny, modern and keenly aware of its conventions.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2022

If only this “Pride and Prejudice” riff had as firm a handle on its own pride and prejudices. In line with its own lack of self-awareness, “Fire Island” reveals startling conventionality and even conservativeness in its political and aesthetic approach.

Full Review | Jun 26, 2022

The movie is wildly enthusiastic about sex ... but it doesn’t fall into cartoonish raunchiness like so many other sex comedies do.

Full Review | Jun 21, 2022

A gorgeous ode to the power of friendship and a rom-com that's as genuinely funny as it is charmingly romantic,'Fire Island' is a total delight.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2022

A modern day swinging gay rom/com.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 18, 2022

So often confined to being a stereotype, [Joel Kim] Booster and director Andrew Ahn have embraced all facets of what makes queer people so fabulously entertaining (yes, perhaps some of the stereotypes are true) and complicatedly deep.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2022

The “gay rom-com” we’ve been waiting for, one that is so comfortable and genuine in its own skin that it’s free to rise above both parts of that label to become simply a great movie.

Full Review | Jun 17, 2022