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Shaft (2019)

6.5 IMDb 34% RT 40/100 MC
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JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

Best Release

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

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Director

Tim Story

Genre

Action, Crime, Comedy

Sub-Genre

Crime Thriller

Box Office

$21,360,215

Editor's Notes

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Criterion's push into Black cinema alongside Menace II Society and Do the Right Thing. Gordon Parks' 1971 original, not the 2019 sequel. The packaging came as a standard case rather than the expected digipak, which was a welcome surprise for shelf uniformity. Collectors noted the Criterion approach to Blaxploitation catalog titles is filling a real gap.

noted Apr 9, 2026

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