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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jeff Goldblum
• Geena Davis
• John Getz
Director
• David Cronenberg
MPAA Rating
R
The Fly (1986)

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OFCS Rating: 92% Fresh
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B
"It left me itching for something less warped to identify with than a human fly."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the sci-fi schlockfest The Fly is celebrated as perhaps the most perfectly balanced of the director's pre-prestige films."  Slant Magazine  Eric Henderson

3.5/4
"Where other Cronenberg films have collapsed under the heavy weight of their own ideas ... The Fly succeeds."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

4/4
"Finally! A horror movie for adults!"  Sci-Fi Movie Page  James O'Ehley

8/10
"Creepy, moody, and downright gory science-fiction horror flic that generates many moments of utter disgust, revulsion, pleasure and sympathy."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

7/10
"Cronenberg's The Fly makes for a good change of pace in the world of horror flicks."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

4/5
"Few films caused so much buzz in the horror world than The Fly."  7M Pictures  Kevin Carr

2.5/5
"Instead of being a pretty good cautionary fable about the limits of technology, it's a show-and-tell in fifth grade biology."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

10/10
"Heartbreakingly sad. Disturbingly gory. Cronenberg's finest hour."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

3/4
"Too much of the good stuff..."  sbs.is  Stefan Birgir Stefansson

4/4
"One of the saddest explorations of love and loss captured in one of the most underestimated films of the '80s."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

3.5/4
Read review  ReelViews  James Berardinelli
OFCS Rating: 92% Fresh
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