PopMatters.com Thomas Britt | 2.20.15 When the devil came / He was not red He was chrome and he said Come with me You must go / So I went… —Wilco, “Hell is Chrome” Fifty Shades of Grey is being celebrated as a
Edweek.org 2.20.15 | Evie Blad State and district policies on sex education are a perenniel source of debates. Should schools teach about contraceptives? Should they promote abstinence? Should they mandate certain training for sex education teachers? An issue that gets a little less
MSNBC.com Joy Y. Wang | 2.17.15 There’s not enough sex, the sex doesn’t accurately portray BDSM, and the characters are anti-feminist and misogynistic. The criticism for the hit film “Fifty Shades of Grey” is wide-ranging and often on-point. But there’s one progressive scene
Slate.com Amanda Marcotte | 2.16.15 Fifty Shades of Grey, which sold 100 million copies by stealing the plot of every '70s-era Harlequin romance and adding BDSM, started out as Twilight fan fiction and has now morphed into a box office winner starring the
The New Yorker Anthony Lane | 2.23.15 If the figures are correct, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” by E. L. James, has been bought by more than a hundred million people, of whom only twenty million were under the impression that it was a
Slate.com Amanda Hess | 2.12.15 Fifty Shades of Grey is a ridiculous movie. Why are the main characters, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, named like 19th-century ballerinas? How is it that newcomer Dakota Johnson (Ana) manages to come off so wry, stunning, and
Slate.com 2.13.15 Sweet Whispered Safe Words Oh my God, ladies, are you dying over Fifty Shades of Grey? By Meghan Daum you come to Fifty Shades of Grey looking for true kink, you will have come to the wrong place. You’ll get peacock
— and NO, it doesn’t glorify rape 2.12.15 | Dallas News Joy Tipping PopCultureNews OK, I’ll admit it: I didn’t find Fifty Shades of Grey nearly as boring as my colleague Chris Vognar did (see his hilarious review here). But perhaps that’s because
