A hip, cool, entertaining thriller.
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06/24/06
Shaft (1971)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 28 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Synopsis: Following the breakout success of Melvin Van Peebles's SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG, Gordon Parks' SHAFT would officially launch the historic Blaxploitation movement. Based on the novel by Ernest Tidyman, the film stars Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, a debonair, tough-talking... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Antonio Fargas, Christopher St. John
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Top Critic
The attraction to them will be the stylish conversation and attitudes, as well as Richard Roundtree, who lends Shaft the right amount of charisma, swagger and untouchability.
01/01/00
Top Critic
This was the second feature of the longtime still photographer Parks, in which he brought together talent for capturing an image and personal knowledge of life on the streets to create a hard-hitting action thriller.
03/01/07
Forty years of gumshoe noir collided with black power in this 1971 action classic, the most popular of the blaxploitation pictures.
03/01/07
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07/01/06
Parks isn't especially good at action direction, but the heart of a private-eye movie is in the mood scenes, anyway, and he supplies a scene in a bar and another one with the Harlem rackets boss that are very nice.
10/23/04
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Who's the black private dick that's the center of a still-enjoyable flick? Shaft!
11/07/02
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