Vice Is Broke

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Vice Is Broke

2024

1h 41m

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In the wake of Vice Media's bankruptcy, Eddie Huang (famed host of Vice's Huang's World, author, chef, producer, and former attorney), takes you on a rough, rugged, and raw first person journey through the wreckage exploring how Vice went up and ultimately came crashing down.

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Róisín Lanigan

Financial Times

The characters in Huang’s film all have one thing in common: they can describe what working at Vice felt like, but not what it all meant. Cool is ephemeral. If you try to define it, to sell it, it disintegrates.

Sep 10, 2025

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Maxwell Rabb

Chicago Reader

What passes for inquiry here is closer to rough research. Vice Is Broke is momentarily compelling but hollow in the end, much like Vice when the hype inevitably died down.

Sep 5, 2025

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J. Kelly Nestruck

Globe and Mail

For those endlessly fascinated by the fall of the Vice magazine turned media empire (that’s me), here’s another deep dive.

Aug 29, 2025

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

As he keeps reminding us, Eddie Huang has an ax to grind, which makes him not the most objective filmmaker in this case.

Sep 26, 2025

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Kent Hill

Film Threat

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.

Rated: 7.5/10

Sep 23, 2025

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Adam Schoales

That Shelf

[Vice Is Broke] is by no means the most insightful documentary you’ll see this year, but admittedly, it sure is a lot of fun.

Sep 6, 2025

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Tom F

A decent documentary that answers some questions about this thing called Vice, but I think it missed the point on both the best and worst legacies of the company.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/03/25

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Arthur R

If "look at me" was a documentary... I also lost count of how many times the narrator mentioned that Vice owed him money

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/13/25

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Satchel L

This Doc is great. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a lame.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/06/25

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In the wake of Vice Media's bankruptcy, Eddie Huang (famed host of Vice's Huang's World, author, chef, producer, and former attorney), takes you on a rough, rugged, and raw first person journey through the wreckage exploring how Vice went up and ultimately came crashing down.

Director: Eddie Huang
Producer: Eddie Huang, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Maya Rodrigo
Distributor: MUBI
Production Co: QC Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 29, 2025
Runtime: 1h 41m

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