Fifty Shades of Grey

 Perfectly recreates mediocrity of source material on screen with nuances of softcore soap-opera.  Edward signs a deal not to unfurrow his brow as long as Bella can avoid saying anything intelligent.  Tedious direction and ludicrous emotionality make Secretary ripoff about as interesting as a mosaic might be to the colorblind. 

Contagion

Soderbergh Traffics in another terrifying global film. Sprawling story adequately accomplishes conveying scope of realistic doomsday scenario, but fails to see some it’s character studies through to completion. Strong performances with epidemic of Oscars are sometimes over-powered by look-at-me editing, and a pervasive score. Good Planet of the Apes tie-in.

The Ides of March

Old-fashioned political drama. Witty banter of a Sorkin script without clever plotting or potent subtlety. The messages are nothing new and story seems to build to shameless punch-line but even in spite of unrelated plot-points still carries suspense to the end. If Clooney went into politics it would be unfair.