Though Ossie Davis's elaborate buddy comedy "Cotton Comes to Harlem" arrived a year earlier, Gordon Parks's "Shaft" (1971) was the movie that put Blaxploitation on the map.
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This review of Shaft (1971) was written by Cole Smithey and published by ColeSmithey.com on 25 Apr 2009.
Shaft has generally received positive reviews.
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