Overview

• The movie is now streaming on Apple TV+ following a Toronto premiere and a limited theatrical run.
• Critics highlight intense, immersive fire sequences and confident lead turns from McConaughey and America Ferrera, with Rotten Tomatoes scores around the mid‑80s.
• Reviewers note factual compression and invented or composite figures, including Yul Vazquez’s Cal Fire chief Ray Martinez, prompting discussion of dramatization versus fidelity.
• The story tracks an attempted evacuation of 22 students during the Camp Fire, the catastrophe that killed 85 people and scorched more than 153,000 acres, with PG&E’s legal culpability cited in background.
• McConaughey’s real-life mother Kay McCabe McConaughey and son Levi appear as his character’s family members, a casting choice widely mentioned in coverage.