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- 1972
- TV-14
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
- 1972
- TV-14
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
Summary The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
Directed By: Gordon Parks Jr.
Written By: Phillip Fenty
- 1972
- TV-14
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
- 1972
- TV-14
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
Super Fly
67
7.0
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Summary The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
Directed By: Gordon Parks Jr.
Written By: Phillip Fenty
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
67
50% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Superfly is in many ways classic pulp, but O'Neal and Mayfield push it toward a sort of epic grandeur.
This interesting feature is one of the few Hollywood films that takes an honest look at the lives of African-Americans in the ghetto.
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.
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.
Gaudy black-exploitation film with explicit racism and some that's implicit. Partly slick, partly amateurish.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.0
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.0
40% Positive
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Awards
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Grammy Awards
• 1 Nomination
