The Fly: Critic Reviews

96%

MovieWeb: 3 reviews

91%

RottenTomatoes: 45 reviews

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Caryn James New York Times (Top Critic)

50

...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 » 9 years ago
Pat Graham Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Image so much subverts intention that Jeff Goldblum's tragic flyperson finally seems more ludicrous than affecting, voyeuristically bizarre.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Variety (Top Critic)

Full Review » 3 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

88

Full Review » 4 years ago
Richard Luck Film4

Cronenberg's most conventional film prior to A History Of Violence, The Fly is also among the finest of his American movies.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Adam Smith Empire Magazine

100

Cronenberg's most triumphant and accessible film to date.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

67

It left me itching for something less warped to identify with than a human fly.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Time Out

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.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine)

84

Kafka would have loved it.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Eric Henderson Slant Magazine

100

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

Charles Edward Pogue and Cronenberg's intelligent script and Goldblum's heartfelt performance make this outlandish story perfectly feasible.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jesse Hassenger Filmcritic.com

80

excels at telling a seemingly simple story with great intensity and human dimensions masked in genre elements
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kevin Carr 7M Pictures

80

Few films caused so much buzz in the horror world than The Fly.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

80

Full Review » 7 years ago
Moriarty Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews

100

Full Review » 7 years ago
John A. Nesbit ToxicUniverse.com

80

Cronenberg mucks up the original in a good way
Full Review » 7 years ago
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

80

Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael A. Smith Nolan's Pop Culture Review

100

A true horror classic. Goldblum's best screen performance.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Eric Lurio Greenwich Village Gazette

80

Full Review » 7 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Nicolas Lacroix EnPrimeur.ca

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette

100

Full Review » 8 years ago
Spence D. IGN Movies

80

Full Review » 8 years ago
Widgett Walls Needcoffee.com

80

Solid and effective. Yeah, and it's pretty disgusting, too.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal

80

Full Review » 9 years ago