It’s always a little awkward to reexamine a beloved older film so rooted in its own era that the chance of it seeming somewhat barbaric today is inevitable. But our current culture seeks not only to ...

A private eye who’s “a sex machine to all the chicks,” as the song went back in 1971, isn’t exactly tailor-made to 2019. The new “Shaft” plays with that tension but yields mixed results, in an action ...