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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 12 Feb 2015

Advertises itself as edgy and titillating, but proves fatally tepid and boring…

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By David Medsker (361) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 12 Feb 2015

Jamie Dornan is going to get crushed for his performance here, but it's not all his fault…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 12 Feb 2015

Johnson has a natural warmth, intelligence, and humor that come across on screen and go a long way toward making the movie less silly than…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 12 Feb 2015

Anastasia is a problem. Christian is one, too. We spend most of the movie trying to figure out which character is the bigger one…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 12 Feb 2015

We're constantly told in life that women long for humor, tenderness and honesty, yet that doesn't seem to be the case here…

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By Jay Posner (2) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 12 Feb 2015

Dornan simply doesn't have the ability to truly offer up deep, unimaginable pain and self-loathing…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 12 Feb 2015

Johnson does a lot of moaning and groaning...leading me to visualize a director wearing plus fours with a megaphone...out of camera range,…

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

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 12 Feb 2015

director Sam Taylor-Johnson attempts to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but while she leavens the experience with some well mined…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 12 Feb 2015

Yet the film's biggest problem is its two stars…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 12 Feb 2015

Actors Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan make an appealing couple and battle mightily against the flat, linear plotting, though when the story…

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By Blake Goble (229) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 12 Feb 2015

Sam Taylor-Johnson's Fifty Shades of Grey is total trash. Noble trash. The amusing kind of trash, actually…

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By Rick Bentley (466) for Fresno Bee (603) on 12 Feb 2015

No one said the masochism part of the story in Fifty Shades of Grey had to do with what the audience would be put through…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Artforum (101) on 12 Feb 2015

In the interest of consumer reporting, I'll say this: The book isn't better than the movie, and the film isn't better than the book…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 12 Feb 2015

Some aspects might be off-putting, but the actors and filmmakers handle the topic in a surprisingly tasteful way…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 12 Feb 2015

A great movie? Not even close. Is it the best movie that could have been made from its source material? It probably is…

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

By Joanna Langfield (398) for The Movie Minute (398) on 12 Feb 2015

A flaccid S and M movie that's more infuriating than titillating? Happy Valentine's Day…

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By Leonie Hayden (12) for Flicks.co.nz (982) on 12 Feb 2015

The sex scenes are the best bit because the story is so abjectly terrible…

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By Thelma Adams (133) for ZEALnyc (27) on 12 Feb 2015

The biggest disappointment for those non-readers of the book is the feeling of is-that-all-there-is…

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

By Kevin Carr (1,610) for Fat Guys at the Movies (419) on 12 Feb 2015

When you look at is as nothing more than horny housewife erotic fiction, it serves its purpose…

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

By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 12 Feb 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey the movie, for the record, is not quite as bad as Fifty Shades of Grey the book. But that's not saying much…

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