Things go from bad to worse, and the climax of the film is as disgusting as it is moving.

| Jul 18, 2023

The Fly is a mass-market, horror film masterpeice that is also a work of art.

| Dec 6, 2022

“Romance” isn’t alway the first word that comes to mind when describing David Cronenberg’s nasty body horror nightmares, but The Fly is nothing if not a deeply loving film.

| Oct 27, 2022

Cronenberg has layered the story with so many possible interpretations and resonances that one's head swims.

| Aug 12, 2022

This movie is convincing, it’s emotionally raw (and it’s a horror film about people in a situation, rather than a horror film where the situation is really a metaphor for grief or whatever), and it’s so much harder to watch than I expected.

| Mar 21, 2022

The Fly is the director's most embossed work, representing the body and distortions thereof in striking visual language.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 21, 2022

This is David Cronenburg at his best. It's messy, it's discomforting, and it's ultimately devastating.

| Nov 12, 2021

A masterpiece of a tragic horror romance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2021

Top tier Cronenberg. This is the start of the auteur's shift into accessible, mainstream Hollywood fare, but it's still maintains his interest in damaged men and weird scientist. What surprises most is how affecting the love story is

| Aug 20, 2021

The body horror genre can be neatly divided into two eras: before The Fly, and after The Fly

| Aug 18, 2021

Even stranger avenues would come, but The Fly would move Cronenberg to the A-list and even 35 years later, it still retains the power to shock.

| Jan 11, 2021

It's still as frightfully vomitous, darkly humorous, and tragically beautiful as when it first premiered.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 6, 2020

It's almost as good as Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake and easily David Cronenberg's best film.

| May 27, 2020

A splendid direction and a constant sense of tension that Cronenberg prints to the footage and that is masterfully exposed during that climax of hallucination. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 18, 2020

For all its fetishistic attention to gross-out elements, what primarily distinguishes the film is its love story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 15, 2019

With a small but top-notch cast, it's not only a credible love story but a morality tale that goes far beyond the familiar '50s bromide that there are some things God didn't intend us to know.

| Nov 15, 2019

The Fly isn't a metaphor, it puts us directly in a messy science fiction situation where horror takes the reigns and flies away with them.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2019

Classic '80s horror has some violence, gory moments.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2019

Jeff Goldblum as the titular Brundlefly supplies Cronenberg's insectoid creature with madness, vulnerability, and intelligence. Together, they make a monster masterpiece.

| Mar 4, 2019

At its best, the movie comes close to the power of classic tragedy.

| Original Score: A+ | May 2, 2016