"Gadflies, a record of a reunion of a group of old high school friends, is filmed with an eye toward the rhythms of conversation, of group gatherings, and with a kind of wit that catches off-guard moments and turns them into faintly unsettling ironies...but Gadflies and Trio may be the two weakest films of the ten [in Brakhage's 1976 Super-8 series]." - Fred Camper