This is really a totally different creation, and it ends up being almost as good for totally different reasons.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2023

Super-empty but super-cool thrills.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2021

While there's time for action and chaos, the detective work is sloppy, resulting in plenty of collateral damage and destruction; it's all brawn and no brains.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 9, 2020

This is just not a good movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 7, 2019

Yeah, apparently John Singleton and Samuel L. Jackson did not get along on set...probably why this movie's such a mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2019

Samuel L Jackson, very cool in a wardrobe designed by Armani, has the necessary presence to carry off this slick homage to the icon of 1970s blaxploitation from director John Singleton.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2017

doesn't have the same historical impact as the original .... but entertaining

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 3, 2013

Packs a ton of style and solid laughs, but in the end, it's mostly a hollow experience...

| Jun 1, 2013

A guilty pleasure for adults and older teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2006

Shaft quickly splits into two different movies, and only one of them fully succeeds.

| May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The primary focus of the film, and the real reason we're here, is to watch Samuel Jackson sink his teeth into the Shaft's trash-talking dialogue.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 6, 2004

Samuel L. Jackson, who broke out of the pack in Pulp Fiction, fits the role and his leather Armani coat as though it's tailor-made. He's the man, and we can dig it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002