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By Blake Howard (505) for 2UE That Movie Show (314) on 27 Feb 2015

Who would have thought, a Twilight ripoff actually being inferior to its already inferior inspiration…

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By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 22 Feb 2015

He's a wealthy tycoon named Gray who takes a woman to her limits. I'm talking, of course, about '9 1/2 Weeks…

Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Margot Harrison (328) for Seven Days (657) on 20 Feb 2015

Perhaps it's time for all of us to recognize that fantasies come in a great many more than 50 shades - and that they're not real…

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By Jane Giles (2) for Sight and Sound (827) on 19 Feb 2015

One suspects that Taylor-Johnson was never free even to push at the edges of sexual representation, and the film's lack of explicit imagery…

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By David Berry (137) for National Post (1,405) on 19 Feb 2015

I fault no one for whatever it is that gets their crank turning, but if this movie is working you need to take that thing out for a spin far…

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By Deborah Ross (530) for The Spectator (1,162) on 19 Feb 2015

I can only say that boredom set in early…

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By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 19 Feb 2015

The much-hyped film adaptation, in which James was closely involved, sticks closely to the novel, but is both strengthened and weakened by…

Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 19 Feb 2015

What is this thing called love? That's a question asked by Cole Porter…

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By Max Nicholson (65) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 18 Feb 2015

Sam Taylor-Johnson's movie adaptation gets so caught up in the intrigue and melodrama that it never really finds its groove…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 18 Feb 2015

a lukewarm exercise in timidity that - if not exactly embarrassed by its subject matter - is extremely wary of diving too deeply into it…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 17 Feb 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey, which gingerly crosses over into the questionable subject mark, may not be the film some of the book's readers were hoping…

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By Clay Cane (203) for BET.com (238) on 17 Feb 2015

The movie is simply a profitable pop culture movement with the only good thing coming out of it is Beyoncé's remix of 'Crazy in Love…

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By Mark Ellis (362) for Schmoes Know (710) on 16 Feb 2015

If this fanchise plans on being the Saw of Valentine's Day, I hope the next installment doesn't torture the audience so much…

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By Kristian Harloff (339) for Schmoes Know (710) on 16 Feb 2015

This is a film that should have gone direct to Cinemax…

Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 15 Feb 2015

It's supposed to be a romance, but plays like a long, boring business meeting in which the naughtiest bits are raised not in the bedroom, but…

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By Mark Kermode (1,002) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 15 Feb 2015

This adaptation of EL James's BDSM potboiler struggles to make a spanking cinematic silk purse out of its notoriously tin-eared source…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 15 Feb 2015

A charm-free hero with control issues and a passive, fretful heroine have coy and tediously vanilla pretend-sex. This is meant to be erotic…

Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Glenn Lovell (434) for CinemaDope (253) on 14 Feb 2015

As silly and, yes, sanctimonious as this adaptation is, it deserves mention as one of the first major studio releases in ages to promote sex…

Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 14 Feb 2015

A desultory dud, that swaps out [the novel's] prolonged and explicit intercourse for tame (conceived as tasteful) inserts, padded out by the…

Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 14 Feb 2015

I expect most viewers would rather see the filmmakers take this franchise in a different direction…

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