Vice Is Broke

Name: Vice Is Broke
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 29, 2025
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 60

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MUBI | Release Date (Streaming): August 29, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Chef, author, and host Eddie Huang traces the wild rise and fall of Vice Media—from a scrappy alt-punk zine in ’90s Montreal to a global media empire worth $5.7 billion. Along the way, he meets key insiders to unpack how the powerhouse of the indie sleaze era burned bright—and crashed hard.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Kent Hill

Sep 23, 2025

Vice is Broke isn’t the ‘hit piece’ of its maker assets. It’s a valentine to the youth and the exuberance with which movements, literary or otherwise, ascend, make their mark, and then are heard from nevermore. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Jul 22, 2025

Huang will never forgive Smith for killing the golden goose, and Smith will probably never take responsibility for it (to judge by the Instagram message with him that Huang shares in the film), but that’s not really what this raw and well-relished documentary is all about. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Aug 29, 2025

Huang has made an eye-opening capsule history that will resonate most keenly with Vice fans. But there’s something more widely instructive, too, in his portrait of a culture clash that turned into an unlikely courtship: ragtag punks and the investment bankers eager to hit the “millennial sweet spot.” Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Aug 29, 2025

This isn’t meant unkindly, but Vice Is Broke will be essential viewing for anybody who ever worked there, with its details about who had what job title and when. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Aug 26, 2025

For as much as Huang tries to go for a more freewheeling approach, treating his interviews like off-the-cuff conversations taking place in bars and restaurants, Vice Is Broke isn’t that intimate or revealing. Read full review

Chase Hutchinson

Jul 22, 2025

For every interview there is with a journalist offering more of this, there is one that just meanders with a notorious influencer that should have probably been cut. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Aug 29, 2025

The problem with “Vice is Broke” is it never quite gets around to answering what went wrong with Vice, content to mimic its “quirky” form of filmmaking as interview subjects recall the toxic workplace atmosphere that undeniably produced some formative journalism. Read full review

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