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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinSuperfly is in many ways classic pulp, but O'Neal and Mayfield push it toward a sort of epic grandeur.
- The film's gut pleasures are real, and there are a lot of them. But, they always connect with one another in a world so precisely, cruelly, excitingly balanced that there is no movement without countermovement, no pressure without a greater pressure in return.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis interesting feature is one of the few Hollywood films that takes an honest look at the lives of African-Americans in the ghetto.
- 75Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrRoundly condemned as a glorification of drug dealing, it's actually an acrid film noir on a classic theme—the hood who must make one last score before he quits the business.
- 60EmpireEmpireWith some of the best costumes since the musicals of the '50s and one of the '70s funkiest scores, it's quite rudimentary on most levels - it's no Shaft.
- 60Time OutTime OutOne of the most successful of the early '70s blaxploitation cycle.
- 50Best that can be said for this quickie is its unpretentiousness in not seeking any pseudo-sociological meaning or theme, or assuming any airs that one is supposed to be enriched or provoked by it all. It's strictly action-adventure, alternating, like clockwork, drugs-sex-violence for its duration with hardly a plot line to hold it together.
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelGaudy black-exploitation film with explicit racism and some that's implicit. Partly slick, partly amateurish.