Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Movie Review

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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Movie Review
Rating:     Rated R
Production:      Focus Features, Michael De Luca Productions, Trigger Street Productions
Genres:     Drama , Romance
Countries:     USA, UK
Languages:     English, Arabic, Swedish
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Writers: Kelly Marcel , E.L. James
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Luke Grimes

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Tampa Bay Times | Steve Persall
Fifty Shades of Grey isn't the howling pornucopia it could be, but it's sexy enough, spank you very much.
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Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum
I spoil nothing by reporting what readers already know, that when Fifty Shades is not a dirty story, it is, as the trilogy unfolds, a study in cartoonishly weird family dynamics.
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Boston Globe | Meredith Goldstein
The director of the much-anticipated adaptation, Sam Taylor-Johnson, made what could have been a trashy TV movie into well-conceived cinema.
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Miami Herald | Connie Ogle
Despite what you might fear, the movie is not torture. And even if it doesn’t inspire lust, you will breathe a warm sigh of relief, thinking: This could have been so much worse.
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HitFix | Drew McWeeny
It's a very slick film. But in the end, that slick becomes suffocating, and there's no real pulse here.
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The Globe and Mail | Courtney Shea
Much was made about how, with respectable director Sam Taylor-Johnson at the helm, Fifty Shades was going to be a legitimately good movie. It’s not, and it’s also not over-the-top enough to suggest future cult-classic status. What it is is a movie best saved for at home viewing, both because there is no compelling reason to see it on the big screen, and mostly because the pause, rewind and fast-forward controls are sure to come in handy.
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Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern
It’s billionaire-glossy, as much an ode to consumerism as a study in sadomasochism; intermittingly titillating, with fugitive flashes of droll; and, bondage apart, a dutifully romantic tale of an old-fashioned girl who takes a particularly roundabout route to true love.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Joe Williams
The movie version of Fifty Shades is better than the book. It's still awful, but when a filmmaker starts with stupid source material, he's handcuffed.
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Portland Oregonian | Jeff Baker
The movie isn't a complete disaster -- it's got a strong performance at its core from Dakota Johnson, and it looks sleek and modern, like a Beyonce video or a Calvin Klein commercial -- but it's an unpleasant experience with a sleazy stench that sticks in a way that E.L. James' novel doesn't.
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The Dissolve | Tasha Robinson
Choosing to ignore any conventional sense of drama, progression, or resolution is, in its way, a memorable choice. But while Fifty Shades Of Grey is a memorable and society-shifting cultural event, it’s in no way a memorable movie.
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Salon.com | Andrew O'Hehir
I wouldn’t say that Taylor-Johnson has made a good movie from Fifty Shades of Grey, precisely. That’s asking too much. But she and Marcel have risen to the challenge of this bizarre cultural moment with an odd and memorable film.
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Slant Magazine | R. Kurt Osenlund
Jamie Dornan somehow manages to render his sculpted beauty moot, which throws a major wrench in the gears for a film dependent on eroticism.
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