From Urban to softerotica: The remarkable career of Sam Taylor-Wood/Johnson

The critical commotion that has emerged around the film adaptation of E.L. James's book Fifty Shades of Grey seems to focus mainly on the good-natured tameness of the final product. Something that contrasts with the supposedly edgy nature of the book, where a virginal young woman allows herself to be sexually initiated by a rich SM yuppie. Film critic Antony Lane summed up the film's flaws perfectly in his witty and entertaining review in the New Yorker:

"Think of it as the Downton Abbey of b...