Superfly (1972)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: SUPERFLY, along with COFFY and SHAFT, completes Blaxploitations's best known triumvirate. One of the highest-grossing pictures of 1972, SUPERFLY became an instant classic, and established director... [More]
Starring: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Julius W. Harris, Charles McGregor
Director: Gordon Parks
Reviews for Superfly
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One of the most successful of the early '70s blaxploitation cycle. Full Review |
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The likes of 'Pusherman' and 'Freddie's Dead' provide the film with heart and depth that would otherwise be absent. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The moral ambiguity of the film may disturb some viewers, but the film smacks of realistic grit throughout. Full Review |
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Probably the best film of the blaxploitation experience. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A very good movie. Full Review |
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Drug dealer, big score, wants to get out of the biz. Yawn. Full Review |
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Super Fly, one of the most significant blaxploitation films ever made, is as fascinatingly entertaining as it is ethically wrongheaded. Full Review |
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O'Neal functioned as a suave but deadly post-Poitier antihero for an increasingly militant urban audience... Full Review |
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Curtis Mayfield's sizzling score may be the most enduringly superfly aspect of this blaxploitation classic. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Classic blaxlpoitation film is still one of the best to come out of the genre. O'Neal gives a fine (but always funky) performance in one of the last movies before the genre ate itself and became self-parody. Terrific soudtrack.
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CommentLatest News for Superfly
March 08, 2006:
Gordon Parks, Influential Director And Photojournalist, Dead At 93
Gordon Parks, one of the 20th Century's greatest photojournalists and an influential filmmaker, died Tuesday at 93. Parks' films, most notably "The Learning Tree"... More...
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