The Washington Post, May 10th, 1987
THE FLY Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis. Directed by David Cronenberg. 1986. R. (CBS/Fox, in stereo, 96 min., $89.98.) Among other things, Cronenberg's "The Fly" is simultaneously a wildly funny and horrific cautionary tale against the born-again impulse. When Goldblum's obsessed scientist emerges from a teleportation machine with superhuman strength, an insatiable sexual appetite and a messianic zeal to take his fellow humans down the path of disintegration-reintegration, he could be a religious nut, a coke head or a fanatical analysand who's just emerged "a new person." He's found nirvana-and the...
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