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
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