Super Fly

Name: Super Fly
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Released: August 4, 1972
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Carl Lee, Charles McGregor, Henry Shapiro, Julius Harris, K.C.

1972

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 4, 1972 | R

Starring: Carl Lee, Charles McGregor, Henry Shapiro, Julius Harris, K.C., Nate Adams, Polly Niles, Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Yvonne Delaine

Summary: The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

Director: Gordon Parks Jr.

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 93 min

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Nathan Rabin

Superfly is in many ways classic pulp, but O'Neal and Mayfield push it toward a sort of epic grandeur. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This interesting feature is one of the few Hollywood films that takes an honest look at the lives of African-Americans in the ghetto. Read full review

Roger Greenspun

The film's gut pleasures are real, and there are a lot of them. But, they always connect with one another in a world so precisely, cruelly, excitingly balanced that there is no movement without countermovement, no pressure without a greater pressure in return. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

One of the most successful of the early '70s blaxploitation cycle. Read full review

Empire Steve O'hagan

With some of the best costumes since the musicals of the '50s and one of the '70s funkiest scores, it's quite rudimentary on most levels - it's no Shaft. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Gaudy black-exploitation film with explicit racism and some that's implicit. Partly slick, partly amateurish.

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Best that can be said for this quickie is its unpretentiousness in not seeking any pseudo-sociological meaning or theme, or assuming any airs that one is supposed to be enriched or provoked by it all. It's strictly action-adventure, alternating, like clockwork, drugs-sex-violence for its duration with hardly a plot line to hold it together. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Mar 28, 2019

A classic and I can probably see why but it never ceases to be a film of its time that something more

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