Is Shaft actually good?

Shaft sits in the 51.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 51.9% of them.

How does Shaft compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Shaft lands in the 43.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Shaft's score based on?

105 calibrated reviewers stand behind Shaft's score.

1971

global pct

51.9

Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s

Shaft

Name: Shaft
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1971

Scored from 105 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

51.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

43.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

55.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

105 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1971, Shaft is an action, crime and thriller film.

The calibrated figure is built from 105 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 106 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Shaft (1971) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 105
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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