 In April 1972, less than three months before the film's release, "Time" magazine called the film "part of a new Hollywood wave of eminently commercial movies by blacks about the black experience," a wave that included "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song", "Shaft", "Shaft's Big Score", "Cool Breeze", "Buck and the Preacher", "The Legend of Nigger Charley", "Super Fly", and "Blacula".A.H.