Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Cool based on 6 reviews
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3.0
Verdict: Cool based on 3 reviews & ratings
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Tim Robey | The Telegraph
Great art it's not – but it's frisky, in charge of itself, and about as keenly felt a vision of this S&M power game we could realistically have expected to see.Read full review3.3
Inkoo Kang | TheWrap
Starring a vivacious Dakota Johnson and a game Jamie Dornan, Taylor-Johnson’s erotic romance is a skillful distillation of James’ first book that captures the heady exhilaration of being someone’s fixation.Read full review3.0
Jordan Hoffman | The Guardian
Johnson’s Ana squeezes believability out of one of the more silly romantic entanglements in recent popular culture. It’s all there in her face, which Taylor-Johnson frames in close-up. She’s fully aware this scenario is ridiculous, but can’t seem to turn away from its lunacy.Read full review2.5
All this publication's reviews | The A.V. Club
Leads Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, both of whom spend the majority of the film supposedly desperately longing for each other, have so little chemistry that it gives the sexy goings-on a rather clinical feel.Read full review2.5
David Edelstein | New York Magazine (Vulture)
Fifty Shades of Grey is nowhere near as laughable as you might have feared (or perversely hoped for): It’s elegantly made, and Dakota Johnson is so good at navigating the heroine’s emotional zigs and zags that you want to buy into the whole cobwebbed premise.Read full review2.1
Eric Kohn | indieWIRE
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from Kelly Marcel's screenplay, the considerable talent behind the camera and a modicum of considerable performances yield a few undeniable guilty pleasures, but most viewers will be seeking a safe word to escape this two-hour-plus mess of half-baked excess.Read full reviewNR
Rodrigo Perez | The Playlist
Ultimately, Fifty Shades Of Grey is embarrassing and depressing, especially when considering the picture as a reflection of the quality of mainstream modern romance today.Read full review
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My review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) by ptl.aml
ptl.aml, 9 years agoI would like to watch...... Cant comment...........
