Audiences, however, attended in their droves the movie took $500m at the box office. Notoriously, James retained tight control over the dialogue and storyline, causing a rift with director Sam Taylor-Wood, and critics were united in their response to the adaptation, deemed by one “about as stimulating as a cold shower”. The response to the 2015 film was little better. Writing in the New York Times, columnist Maureen Dowd called James “Brontë devoid of talent”. It made Twilight look like War and Peace”. Critics have called her writing boring and clunky Salman Rushdie said he had “never read anything so badly written that got published.
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