Mondo Moxie: The Fly (1986)

"Cronenberg's most triumphant and accessible film to date. [2007]"

— Adam Smith, Empire Magazine

"The film boasts some of the finest writing ever to appear in a sci-fi flick."

— Al Brumley, Dallas Morning News

"Underneath its melodramatic horror-film disguise, The Fly is a classic tragedy."

— Jay Scott, Globe and Mail

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

— Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

"Cronenberg has made a mainstream movie without compromising himself and has accomplished it with great skill."

— Derek Malcolm, Guardian

"Director David Cronenberg keeps the action chilling without overlooking the humans beneath the Oscar-winning makeup."

— Neal Justin, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"In The Fly, the most grotesque, funny, repulsive, inventive and strangely moving film of Cronenberg's career, you laugh until you scream."

— Ron Base, Toronto Star

"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."

— Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

"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."

— Tom Charity, 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."

— Tom Charity, Time Out

"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."

— Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer