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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 13 Jun 2018

Music video director Director X, making his feature debut, presents it all in a compelling and often intoxicating manner…

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By Teddy Durgin (233) for Screen It! (1,437) on 13 Jun 2018

This is kind of like watching a 100-minute-plus music video. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, Sex, etc. - also Available)…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 13 Jun 2018

Superfly escapes superficiality thanks largely to strong performances from Jackson; Jason Mitchell as Priest’s workmanlike partner, Eddie,…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Original Cin (1,156) on 13 Jun 2018

Though it can’t match the Michael Mann-level menace and poetic rapture it aspires to, the new Atlanta-set Superfly is certainly watchable…

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By Chris Klimek (121) for NPR (1,713) on 13 Jun 2018

A more seasoned director of narrative features might've figured of how to sustain these high points…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 12 Jun 2018

The material has been updated without the gritty visual texture or the provocative - and somewhat controversial - social subtext of its predecessor…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 12 Jun 2018

A lengthy rap video made up of shorter rap videos, offering little excitement as it stumbles through predictable criminal events…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 12 Jun 2018

This Superfly is all hair and clothes and cars. There’s nothing beneath the surface…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 12 Jun 2018

Always tryin' to get over. Never quite does…

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By Orlando Maldonado (53) for Movie Network (62) on 12 Jun 2018

There's no style and no substance in a remake destined to be nothing more than a guilty pleasure for some. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 12 Jun 2018

The new Superfly isn’t a great work of artistry or of cheap thrills — it’s so in between it’s practically bourgeois — but in the…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Jun 2018

Neither as satisfying as the remake of Shaft nor as objectionable as the remake of Death Wish, the second coming of Superfly wants to tap into…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 12 Jun 2018

SuperFly isn't challenging or groundbreaking, but at least it lives up to its title…

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By John Urbancich (394) for Your Movies (cleveland.com) (472) on 12 Jun 2018

Superfly' stylishly and violently looks, feels and plays enough like the Gordon Parks Jr. original to make it a slight guilty pleasure…

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By Kristen Page-Kirby (44) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Jun 2018

Did the original “Super Fly” need to be remade? Not really…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 12 Jun 2018

But every now and then what passes for an original idea emerges from screenwriter Alex Tse (Sucker Free City) and Director X…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 12 Jun 2018

Slick but not cool and has nothing much to say…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 Jun 2018

SuperFly is visually flat, relying too much on oft-repeated motifs of rap videos rather than the ingenuity I expected…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 12 Jun 2018

At least it looks super fly…

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By Keith Watson (196) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jun 2018

SuperFly is a slicked-up, tricked-out revamp that dispenses with any pretense of verisimilitude in favor of rap-video extravagance and mob-movie…

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