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Shaft
2019
· Movie
· 111 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3768
- IMDb #3706
- Rotten Tomatoes #2865
- Metacritic #3949
- Letterboxd #4668
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4547
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #190
- Metacritic Critics #4258
- Metacritic Audience #3030
- Kinopoisk #3821
- AlloCiné #2710
- Trakt #2346
Every rating
34–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 34, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 94. Critics average 37, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Tim Story
- Writers
- Alex Barnow, Kenya Barris
- Based on
- a work by Ernest Tidyman
- Studio
- Davis Entertainment, New Line Cinema
- Released
- 14 June 2019
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $21.4M
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