Predictable but unexpectedly enlightened.
Fifty Shades of Black
Way shadier than gray.
2016 · 1h 32m · R
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Michael Tiddes
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Fifty Shades of Black
Overview
An inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
The movie's mean-spiritedness becomes even more painful than the dippiness of the source material.
Wayans is ... incapable of limiting himself to parodying one movie at a time, tossing in riffs on Whiplash, Magic Mike, and Zero Dark Thirty to varying degrees of success.
As with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull's-eyes arrive only intermittently.
Wayans continues his pattern of creating movie simulacra - calling them "parodies" or even "spoofs" puts far too fine a point on it - whereby we're supposed to laugh because we recognize the thing that is being reenacted.
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