The clothes are great. The cribs are well-appointed. The fight sequences, although too few, are nicely choreographed. Yet none of it seems to coalesce into a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2018

Director X...can't seem to differentiate between the strip-club aesthetics of a rap video and the demands of a full-length feature film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 14, 2018

An unlikable misfire of a film, with only a few decent performances on hand to make it worth your while.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2018

The early scenes are so full of bling and macho posturing that you half suspect the film must be intended as a spoof.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2018

The whole thing plays like a fancy dress parody of a crime movie, except nobody seems to be having much fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 9, 2018

The new Superfly seems...like an embarrassing throwback.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 21, 2018

A few sequences have a certain sting... but, for the most part, the film seems to run on autopilot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2018

For all its tossed-off flash, "Superfly" goes beyond the mere intricacy of its audacious plotting to suggest the cruelty, the horror, and the deceit at the heart of the American body politic.

| Jun 21, 2018

For all its pulpy, genre-movie intentions, SuperFly is virtually crippled by its own ludicrousness.

| Jun 15, 2018

What's intriguing, and occasionally even thrilling, about Director X's movie is that it's also as unabashedly cheesy as the original.

| Jun 15, 2018

The outfits, the outfits, the outfits are amazing...This movie is crazily entertaining.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 15, 2018

It's really stylish and has great gloss and energy about it...This definitely has the look and a lot of the very knowing trappings of music video culture.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 15, 2018

"Superfly" escapes superficiality thanks largely to strong performances from Jackson; Jason Mitchell as Priest's workmanlike partner, Eddie, and Michael Kenneth Williams as Priest's mentor, Scatter.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 15, 2018

A more seasoned director of narrative features might've figured of how to sustain these high points. But Lutz careens among tones like a chromed-out Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado that's had its brake lines cut.

| Jun 14, 2018

Superfly has a long way to go to be considered a great movie, but it's not a particularly bad one, either.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 14, 2018

The new Superfly isn't a great work of artistry or of cheap thrills - it's so in between it's practically bourgeois - but in the swagger department, it just squeaks by.

| Jun 14, 2018

It feels like the reason for remaking "Super Fly" got lost along the way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 13, 2018

The film's strip-club-and-slo-mo aesthetic is yanked right out of any number of hip-hop videos - and also about as deep.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 13, 2018

SuperFly isn't challenging or groundbreaking, but at least it lives up to its title.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 13, 2018

Did the original "Super Fly" need to be remade? Not really.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 13, 2018