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

| Dec 6, 2022

What makes The Fly such a stunning piece of obsessive film making is the way Cronenberg deftly allows us to identify with his monstrous creation.

| Aug 4, 2013

Wildly imaginative, gut-wrenchingly scarifying and profoundly primal (not to mention funny), David Cronenberg's The Fly is a movie that whacks you in the solar plexus and leaves you gasping.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 4, 2013

What's good about the film are the strong performances and the ingenious, mostly amusing script. What's ugly, of course, is the grossness. And what's bad is the movie's inability to reconcile its good and ugly aspects.

| Aug 4, 2013

As slimy and as grotesque as some of its special effects become, The Fly is a far superior horror film to the top-grossing film in America of late, Aliens.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 4, 2013

The Fly seizes on our ingrained, instinctive horror of sexuality, the sense of shame that our fundamentally puritanical society can't help but teach us, and by confirming our worst fears, helps us, for a moment, to move beyond them.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 4, 2013

A gross-your-eyes-out horror movie that is also the year's most poignant romance.

| Oct 18, 2011

David Cronenberg's remake of the 1958 horror classic The Fly is not for the squeamish. Casting Jeff Goldblum was a good choice as he brings a quirky, common touch to the spacey scientist role.

| Mar 26, 2009

Cronenberg's most triumphant and accessible film to date.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 24, 2007

Image so much subverts intention that Jeff Goldblum's tragic flyperson finally seems more ludicrous than affecting, voyeuristically bizarre.

| Jun 5, 2007

The playful, quirky chemistry between Goldblum and Davis in the first half of the movie ensures that this gothic horror is heartbreaking as well as stomach-churning.

| Jan 26, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 20, 2005

...a film that tries to be too many things at once -- funny but not campy, sad and scary, a horror story and a human tragedy...

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Firmly rooted in the type of film he does best, Cronenberg unleashes a series of nauseating effects as Goldblum transforms into a fly over a period of weeks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000