Shaft

Shaft is also funny, with a sharp, fast-paced humor (though one transphobic joke is a tone-deaf clunker). And it’s always enjoyable to watch Jackson walking around while dropping f-bombs (and mother-f-bombs) all over the place.

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

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Jessie T. Usher tries to keep Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree’s macho sexism in check in a mostly successful three-boot

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Samuel L. Jackson reprises the iconic role for a second time in Tim Story's reboot, which finds the legendary cop teaming with his son to solve a murder.

2129d ago

How did a bad mother (shut your mouth) turn into a bad dad joke?

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Director Tim Story’s update of the blaxploitation classic remains shamelessly regressive

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Times sure have changed since the old Shaft made women swoon by simply treating them like shit. As for the new Shaft, is he still a bad mutha? Shut your mouth.

2129d ago

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 the wrong ways. This Shaft is a bad mother all right, and it'd be better if he just shut his mouth.

2129d ago

Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? Probably not this silly version of the iconic private eye.

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Ultimately, the only truly retro thing about this weirdly reactionary potboiler is its politics.

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Samuel L Jackson returns in the latest take on the 70s detective to unleash a toxic stream of bigotry in a misjudged attack on millennial masculinity

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This movie is “ruin your childhood” bad, right down to the hideous auto-tuned end credits song they chose to use instead of the original “Theme From Shaft.” I say this flick Shaft is a bad movie. Shut yo’ mouth.

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