Fresh
One of the most successful of the early '70s blaxploitation cycle.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Super Fly
Never a dude like this one! He's got a plan to stick it to The Man!
1972 · 1h 31m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Gordon Parks Jr.
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Super Fly
Overview
Priest, a New York City drug kingpin, devises a scheme to get out of the business and retire with a big payday, but his plans are complicated when a street dealer rats him out to the police.
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93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A very good movie.
Roger Greenspun, New York Times
Fresh
Super Fly, one of the most significant blaxploitation films ever made, is as fascinatingly entertaining as it is ethically wrongheaded.
Douglas Pratt, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
Gordon Parks Jr. was one of the greatest casualties of the collapse of blaxploitation cinema, a director with a distinctive, tightly packed visual style nd a remarkably bitter vision for this supposedly escapist genre.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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