‘Operation Varsity Blues’ Film Review: Doc Peels Back the Layers of the College Admissions Scam Mixing interviews and re-enactments, this tell-all documentary reveals the scheme and examines a process that’s broken in many waysAlonso Duralde | March 11, 2021 @ 6:00 AM Netflix Director Chris Smith (“Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened”) gets another juicy contemporary headline-grabber to unpack with “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal.” This new film might lack the larger-than-life players and salty schadenfreude of that earlier Netflix documentary, but it does offer a look into both the titular scam and a broken higher education system that allowed for such chicanery.