Fifty Shades Freed (film) approval rating of 11%, based on 167 reviews, and an average rating of 3.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Fifty Shades Freed" brings its titillating trilogy to a clumsy conclusion, making for a film franchise that adds up to a distinctly dissatisfying "ménage à trois"." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based on 43 critics, meaning "generally unfavorable reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, the same score earned by "Darker", while PostTrak reported that 56% of females (who made
Fifty Shades (novel series) was torturous, and not in the intended, sexy kind of way". Jessica Reaves, of the "Chicago Tribune", wrote that the "book's source material isn't great literature", noting that the novel is "sprinkled liberally and repeatedly with asinine phrases", and described it as "depressing". The book garnered some accolades. In December 2012, it won both "Popular Fiction" and "Book of the Year" categories in the UK National Book Awards. In that same month, "Publishers Weekly" named E. L. James the 'Publishing Person of the Year', causing an "outcry from the literary world". For example, "What was "Publishers Weekly" thinking?" asked "Los