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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiLos Angeles TimesMartin Tsai"Black” foregoes too much scene-setting, chronology and logic to stand completely on its own. As a piece of cultural criticism, however, it painstakingly eviscerates nearly every scene in “Grey” and skewers latent sexism, classism and ludicrous sexual innuendoes, as well as the original’s numerous plot holes.
- The film manages to be surprisingly subversive with its humor.
- 42The A.V. ClubKatie RifeThe A.V. ClubKatie RifeWhen Wayans allows himself to deviate from his formula there are a few effective moments of un-self-conscious slapstick.
- 40The New York TimesAndy WebsterThe New York TimesAndy WebsterAs with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull’s-eyes arrive only intermittently.
- 38Slant MagazineClayton DillardSlant MagazineClayton DillardAn aimless, if sporadically clever, parody that tirelessly conceives of human sexuality as punchlines for its shortsighted cultural ribbings.
- 38RogerEbert.comChristy LemireRogerEbert.comChristy LemireMostly, Fifty Shades of Black is exactly what you expect it will be. It hits all the notes of its source material, only it amps them up, and it seems to get the inherent absurdity of this premise even more than Sam Taylor-Johnson’s movie did.
- 33ConsequenceBlake GobleConsequenceBlake GobleMarlon Wayans is clearly getting off on the gags, but the lazy, hard humor, and elastic joke-making eventually has a numbing effect.
- 30VarietyScott TobiasVarietyScott TobiasAt a minimum, a parody should be funnier than the film it’s sending up, but Fifty Shades of Black, a quick-and-dirty riff on last year’s S&M romance “Fifty Shades of Grey,” falls a laugh or two short of even that low standard.
- 20The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe funniest bit involves a particularly sadistic brand of torture that he inflicts on Hannah.... She quite rightly screams in protest, as should anyone forced to watch this movie.
- 0TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeA slapdash movie that’s more unbearable than the heavy-breathing best-seller and its emotionally timid screen adaptation.