Fifty Shades Freed (film) chase. There's an out-of-left-field abduction and a marital tiff over email addresses; but these narrative fragments, lazily tossed together alongside a neglected supporting cast, are no more than a flimsy causeway connecting bonking sessions." Conversely, "IndieWire" reviewer Manuela Lazic gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Finally, the "Fifty Shades" phenomenon has yielded a disarming comedy that makes this ridiculous material fun to watch." Fifty Shades Freed (film) Fifty Shades Freed is a 2018 American erotic romantic drama film directed by James Foley and written by Niall Leonard, and based on E. L. James's 2012 novel of the
Fifty Shades Darker (film) characters' identities, conflicts, and desires is matched by its indifference to its own cinematic substance. The film's bland impersonality is grotesque; its element of pornography isn't in its depiction of sex but in its depiction of people, of relationships, of situations that, for all their unusualness, bear a strong psychological and societal resonance. There's nothing wrong with "Fifty Shades Darker" that a good director couldn't fix. The final installment of the trilogy was filmed back-to-back with "Fifty Shades Darker" and was released on February 9, 2018. Fifty Shades Darker (film) Fifty Shades Darker is a 2017 American erotic romantic drama