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 of Grey (film) continuance, stating that "much or all" of the "Fifty Shades" material was part of the public domain because it was originally published in various venues as a fan fiction based on the "Twilight" series. A lawyer for Smash Pictures further commented that the federal copyright registrations for the books were "invalid and unenforceable" and that the film "did not violate copyright or trademark laws". The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum and Smash Pictures agreed to stop any further production or promotion of the film. In April 2015, "The Hollywood Reporter" reported that E. L.