As dodgy, ludicrous and funny, as the film might be, as a public spectacle it’s probably not as embarrassing as being seen reading the book

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2024

Here's a film that is offensive only in how inoffensive it proves to be.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 11, 2022

Feels like an elegantly made - the cinematography and score are top notch - night time soap opera.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2021

At least, the film goes out of the way to show the use of condoms.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 4, 2020

If this is love, no thanks.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

In terms of story and character, this film is in desperate need of a safe word.

| Original Score: D | Jul 16, 2020

Overlong, too clinical in design, and based on lowest common denominator entertainment (or so I'm told), Fifty Shades of Grey still manages to be engaging, funny, and unexpectedly human.

| Apr 10, 2020

Given that this is her second film, [Sam] Taylor-Johnson directs the film with taste and care by focusing on the interactions between Ana and Christian rather than the sexual side of the story and the film looks stunning.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2019

Fifty Shades of Grey will draw you in out of curiosity and possibly hopes of a good movie, then leave you wondering why you agreed to such a thing in the first place, much like the main character.

| Original Score: 3.9/10 | Nov 12, 2019

Funny that no one seemed to understand in the making of Grey that watching two vaguely defined characters engage in ceaseless rounds of conservatively filmed grimaces and stifled moans gets tiresome quickly.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 19, 2019

There is little more critical than to say a third of the film had people laughing at dialogue, and the other two thirds wiggling in their seats, not from discomfort or innervation, but from boredom.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 2, 2019

You've seen worse; you've imagined better.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2019

Nice as it looks, this movie tastes bad...

| May 16, 2019

Most of the actual sex has less erotic value than what can be found on late night HBO, and it certainly doesn't hold a candle to the graphic content of the novels or the erotic-charged hype surrounding the film.

| Original Score: D+ | May 10, 2019

You would've put the book down after reading the character's name on the third page: Anastasia Steele? Puh-lease!

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 17, 2019

[General audiences] might need to be handcuffed to their seats and wonder how something so wildly popular could be so stiflingly unerotic.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2019

Every fiber of my being is screaming at her to send this man packing.

| Feb 5, 2019

The dialogue is terrible and Dornan's Grey is so humourless that any vaguely funny lines fall utterly flat. On the plus side Johnson does her best with what she's been given, Ana is a Thomas Hardy fan, and Grey has a nice kitchen.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 10, 2018

The entire palate of the film was cool and gray, which doesn't do much to incite passion. and I don't think we should blame the actors.

| Aug 22, 2018

Fifty Shades of Grey is that hot date you bring home to discover (s)he's a cold fish between the sheets.

| Aug 22, 2018