“Sleek,
urgent, knowing, gleefully profane and above all ultra-cool, Shaft blows into the summer movie season like a breath
of fresh air”
- Susan Stark
“[O]ne
of the most virulently racist films in recent memory, with such ugly ethnic and racial
stereotyping that it may make you want to squirm uneasily in your seat ”
- Jeff Vice
Shaft
Samuel L. Jackson is the new Shaft, a tough detective on the hunt
for a wealthy, racist killer. Vanessa L. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Dan
Hedaya, Busta Rhymes, Toni Collette, Richard Roundtree. Director: John Singleton (2000, R)
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