Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Shaft
Scored from 298 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
JJ Shaft, an FBI cybersecurity analyst, enlists the help of his estranged father, private detective John Shaft II, to investigate the suspicious death of his best friend in Harlem. Their investigation pulls in JJ's grandfather, the original Shaft, as the three generations clash over methods while tracking a drug ring tied to the case.
Shaft is a 2019 action, comedy and crime film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 298 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 318 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 570 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Shaft lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2010s (13,059 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 298.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
