Superfly review – a sleek, swaggering blaxploitation remake

Director X’s take on the 1972 crime drama is a brutal, visually indulgent saga of extravagance and racial tensions The new remake of blaxploitation staple Superfly starts to feel like a pornographic film somewhere around the shower-set threesome, the steamiest sex scene that a major American studio has allowed in years. But even before that refreshingly indelicate display, Director X adopts pornography’s absolute commitment to the pleasure principle in his fixation on the spectacle o