Is Shaft actually good?

Shaft sits in the 50.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 50.6% of them.

How does Shaft compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2010s, Shaft lands in the 57.4% 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?

298 calibrated reviewers stand behind Shaft's score.

2019

global pct

50.6

Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s

Shaft

Name: Shaft
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Released: 2019

Scored from 298 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).

50.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

57.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles

52.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

298 calibrated reviewers

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 of its IMDb reviewers. 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.

Is Shaft (2019) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2010s · 13,059 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 298
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2010s

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