Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
Critic Reviews
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Variety Guy Lodge
For all its structural and psychological deficiencies, it's hard not to enjoy Fifty Shades Darker on its own lusciously limited terms.
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Indiewire Kate Erbland
Whipping up a proper tone for the big screen versions of E.L. James' wildly popular novels was always going to be the films' biggest problem, and while director James Foley might not quite nail it, wily injections of humor prove to be an unexpectedly helpful addition to the kinky franchise.
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50
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Boston Globe Meredith Goldstein
Even with an improved Dornan, the movie still belongs to Johnson, a character actress capable of making light of a movie pretending to be darker.
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50
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Chicago Tribune Katie Walsh
The last third of the film descends straight into a combination of "Dynasty" with shades of cult classic "The Room." It's fantastic because it's complete and utter silly madness. Helicopter crashes! Slaps! Drinks thrown in faces! Fully clothed shower sex! A framed "Chronicles of Riddick" poster! All the makings of an instant cult classic.
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TheWrap Alonso Duralde
It's nice that the two photogenic leads are treating sex like a pleasurable activity rather than an onerous chore in this second entry, but overall, the film plays like an un-asked-for collaboration between the Hallmark and Playboy Channels.
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Entertainment Weekly
Darker is strangely plotless and devoid of any real tension.
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Screen International Tim Grierson
Sometimes sexy, sometimes campy, Fifty Shades Darker is a smorgasbord of silliness, its dopey pleasures indistinguishable from its many awkwardly melodramatic moments.
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Movie Nation Roger Moore
A film which promises “darker” but delivers “funnier” - with some of the laughs intentional.
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The Playlist Will Ashton
Pulseless, perfunctory and persistently watering down its kookier instincts, Fifty Shades Darker pales in comparison to the first. You might as well call it Fifty Shades Duller.
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The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore
Leonard and Foley offer enough semi-naked sex scenes here to prove that quantity is no substitute for chemistry.
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