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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 12 Jun 2019

How jokes this offensive can make it to the screen in 2019 is beyond comprehension and a bit of a shame, considering that this has so much…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for The Seattle Times (964) on 12 Jun 2019

What we have here is a standard-issue comedy-tinged crime thriller indifferently directed by Tim Story (the “Think Like a Man” and “Ride…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Jun 2019

Among all the cardinal sins of moviemaking it commits (up to and including reusing an iconic needle drop from a Martin Scorsese movie), the…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 12 Jun 2019

I appreciate the direction they wanted to take this, but the jokes needed work, the ridicule should be more directed at Jackson’s character’s…

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By Mike Vanderbilt (6) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 12 Jun 2019

While that can be entertaining at times, Shaft mostly reads as an oddly sexless, convoluted, and downright dull continuation…

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By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Jun 2019

Times sure have changed since the old Shaft made women swoon by simply treating them like sh*t…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Jun 2019

The plotting is so leaden and the fire fights so pro forma that not even the sight of the three Shafts in action can keep this film from sinking…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 12 Jun 2019

Cool New York City detective John Shaft is back again in, you guessed it, Shaft, with a modern update that goes completely sideways in all…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for IGN (1,013) on 12 Jun 2019

Tim Story takes a classic movie franchise and drains it of all the action, sex and topicality that made it worth revisiting in the first place…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jun 2019

The movie is product, but by the end you want to see this team again…

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By Kristen Page-Kirby (44) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Jun 2019

Shaft is also funny, with a sharp, fast-paced humor (though one transphobic joke is a tone-deaf clunker)…

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By Kerry Lengel (223) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 12 Jun 2019

In the end, this may be a case of a pop-culture icon being dragged down by the weight of trying remain relevant past its prime…

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By Luke Parker (63) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 12 Jun 2019

With a greener blend of heart and humor, Shaft safely ushers in the vigilante detective for modern audiences, though safety never seemed to…

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