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Movie review: The couple try marital bliss in sublime, silly 'Fifty Shades Freed'

In "Fifty Shades of Grey," the first of E.L. James' romance novels to dominate the best-seller lists, the brooding Seattle billionaire Christian Grey informs his new paramour, Anastasia Steele, of his general lack of interest in "vanilla sex" - traditional, kink-free intercourse unmediated by cuffs, chains or any of the other instruments he keeps in his leather-padded Red Room of Pain.

In "Fifty Shades Freed," the third and final movie to be adapted from the series, Anastasia - played once more with heroic commitment by Dakota Johnson - unwittingly hits at a new definition of "vanilla sex." She and Christian (Jamie Dornan) are now married, and after raiding the freezer late one night, she shoves her husband against a

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