Fifty Shades Darker
Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 10, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
18
Negative:
19
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 10, 2017
This is a bad film - at times it’s nigh unwatchable - but that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 9, 2017
A film which promises “darker” but delivers “funnier” — with some of the laughs intentional. Read full review
33
The PlaylistWill AshtonFeb 9, 2017
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. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiFeb 15, 2017
Apart from a few moments of fleeting suspense, Fifty Shades Darker resembles a Facebook feed of someone you kind of knew in high school who maybe went on to have a glamorous future, but everything seems a little bit off and contrived. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonFeb 10, 2017
Despite the nonstop banality, Johnson remains the sole source of allure: Her sleepy eyes suggest nights devoted to pleasure inconceivable to James. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranFeb 9, 2017
This is a surprisingly dull and tedious affair where nothing is even remotely plausible, the romance and the sex least of all. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 9, 2017
This is a horrible movie. Which makes it not a lot different from the first film. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeFeb 9, 2017
Leonard and Foley offer enough semi-naked sex scenes here to prove that quantity is no substitute for chemistry. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedFeb 14, 2017
It’s fifty times more boring than the first one. It is also fifty shades dumber. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorFeb 9, 2017
What makes it downright offensive are all the romance-novel flourishes that Leonard and the melodramatically inclined director James Foley, also new to the franchise, bring to glittering three-dimensional life in Fifty Shades Darker. Read full review
25
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldFeb 9, 2017
It’s not a terribly good idea to base a movie on a book in which almost nothing happens for 500 pages, but that’s what we have here. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayFeb 9, 2017
Fifty Shades Darker takes the Dark Knight approach to franchise maintenance, taking pains to assure you that its protagonists are serious about their passions. Read full review
25
USA TodayBrian TruittFeb 9, 2017
There are a lot of negative things to be said about Fifty Shades Darker. But it does impress in one sense: The erotica lite sequel somehow manages to be worse than the stupefyingly bad "Fifty Shades of Grey." Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithFeb 9, 2017
Fifty Shades will make you dumber. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeFeb 9, 2017
It’s a female-driven fantasy, for sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not toxic. And God help the poor woman who believes it. Read full review
20
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 9, 2017
A professional with real credits, so I assume that [Mr. Foley's] not finally responsible for the ineptitude of Fifty Shades Darker, which ranges from continuity issues to unsurprisingly risible writing. There are also abrupt swings in tone, dead-end detours and flatline performances, including from Ms. Johnson. Read full review
16
ConsequenceAllison ShoemakerFeb 9, 2017
Dull at best, damaging at worst, and not worth a moment of your time. Read full review
12
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 9, 2017
This, however, is not Mamet – it's a beast of roaring stupidity that devours everything in its path, including the veteran filmmaker. Read full review
10
SlateLaura BennettFeb 16, 2017
Fifty Shades Darker is very faithful to its predecessor’s vision. That is to say, it is another terrible movie with just the slightest whiff of self-awareness about how terrible it is. Read full review
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