There is some much-needed comic-relief in this Shaft, but sadly this film hasn’t grown up when it comes to its treatment of women while still loving a good ’70s stereotype.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

There's a great soundtrack... it's funny, lots of action, everything you love about the Shaft franchise.

| Sep 29, 2021

To dissect this film too deeply would give toxic masculinity and blatant homophobia their time in the sun.

| Jan 29, 2021

It's easy enough to laugh at the brazenness and the raunchiness.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 7, 2020

A frequently funny film that self-parodies without ever becoming a total joke.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 22, 2020

Some legends should be retired and admired for what they used to be. Shaft is one of them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2020

Shaft is definitely everything we were hoping Jackson's first go-around in the role would be.

| Jun 28, 2020

At any rate, this oddball little film [is] just too much fun to do anything but groove with it.

| Mar 17, 2020

An appealing reboot.

| Feb 19, 2020

Whatever Shaft is saying about race, authority, age, gender or masculinity - which are interesting talking points no matter how badly fumbled they are - I keep going back to the rancid humour.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 8, 2020

There's not much else to this routine and sometimes retrograde actioner. Jackson deserves better material, but even so it's impressive how far he can carry it.

| Jan 7, 2020

Shaft feels rushed, as if two different scripts were mashed together.

| Dec 18, 2019

This is a very strange movie... They've taken one of the coolest, suavest characters in movie history and cast him in this multigenerational "grumpy old dad" sitcom.

| Oct 1, 2019

Add this to the pile of crap legacy sequels like "A Good Day to Die Hard," and "Blues Brothers 2000."

| Sep 30, 2019

Not having a stronger, more serious plot means the film will likely appeal more to Shaft newbies than to Shaft devotees.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2019

It's a new way to approach an old character and it tries harder to give its main characters something to do than a lot of its colleagues do, and there is something worthy in that.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 24, 2019

If you are of a younger generation you will relate to many of the pop culture references that Shaft (2019) provides.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2019

Although a bit out of place for its time, the fifth Shaft film packs enough gunfights, wisecracks, and thrills to make it a decent entry in the series. Samuel L. Jackson fans will not be disappointed, and neither will fans of Richard Roundtree.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 17, 2019

For those of us weaned on 1970s and '80s television, Shaft feels like dozing off on a shag rug - an unconscious nod into a long, open loop of nostalgia that conjures an entire, and unique, set of sounds and textures.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2019

The messages are bad and the movie is bad. It's plain and clear why the studio dumped this on Netflix internationally.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 8, 2019