Empire's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 6,824 reviews, this publication has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
| Highest review score: | Oppenheimer | |
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| Lowest review score: | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3,008 out of 6824
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Mixed: 3,658 out of 6824
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Negative: 158 out of 6824
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Simon Crook
Black-veined and dark-hearted, this is another persuasive character study from Campos.- Empire
- Posted Apr 8, 2013
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James Dyer
A harrowing, economical thriller that will sit with you for days, this is Shyamalan’s best film in years, and a calling card for Bautista in his strongest performance yet.- Empire
- Posted Feb 1, 2023
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William Thomas
The script might have benefited from being directed by someone more daring, instead George Roy Hill settles for more mainstream territory.- Empire
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Ian Nathan
Classic War caper with a few too many plot contrivances but high on adventure.- Empire
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A daring reimagining of an oft-told story, Kiss Of The Spider Woman features some sensational musical moments that nicely hark back to classic Hollywood, but struggles to reconcile two very different worlds.- Empire
- Posted Apr 17, 2026
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Ian Freer
If you hear the Rocky theme and think '118 118', you might wonder what all the fuss is about. For the rest of us, this is a reminder of why we fell in love with the character in the first place.- Empire
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Dan Jolin
A fascinating and visually impressive intellectual helter-skelter ride, but the lack of narrative coherence lets down its promising sci-fi concepts and satire.- Empire
- Posted Aug 11, 2014
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William Thomas
A screwball comedy, with two well-cast leads, with a pre-Sex and the City Parker and a amusing Cage. The plot is ridiculous but enjoyably so, with enough jokes to carry it for an hour and a half and a relatively fast pace prevents you from seeing the holes in the story.- Empire
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Bourne goes epic. A wham-bam actioner, but its pointed political subtext ensures Damon and Greengrass deliver their most provocative mission yet.- Empire
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Paul Schrader delivers another compelling investigation of conflicted men in modern America. Master Gardener has a stately pace but a knockout punch; enriching cinema for the discerning punter.- Empire
- Posted May 24, 2023
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Anna Smith
Sterling performances lift the occasionally soapy storyline in this semi-successful adaptation.- Empire
- Posted Mar 9, 2015
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Jonathan Pile
A great cast is let down by a script that fails to provide a compelling mystery to solve. Never mind as a big-screen production, this would be disappointing as a BBC mini-series.- Empire
- Posted Sep 4, 2017
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Jonathan Pile
A sports film with an arthouse sensibility. It benefits greatly from its chosen subject matter — two of the most remarkable characters in sporting history — but only manages to truly get under the skin of one of them.- Empire
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A birdie biopic that’s too keen to avoid ruffling feathers, Lowthorpe’s film still boasts two brilliant lead performances — a magnificent Foy and an even more majestic Mabel.- Empire
- Posted Jan 20, 2026
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Angie Errigo
Exciting in parts, Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon doing their best, but arc of suspense doesn't quite bring you to the edge of your seats.- Empire
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Ian Nathan
One for the die hards. The saving grace here is a knowing sense of humour so lacking in its predecessor, For Your Eyes Only.- Empire
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John Nugent
A bold, brave first effort behind the camera for Viggo Mortensen, elegantly distilling some painful truths for anyone who has ever had a complicated relationship with a parent.- Empire
- Posted Dec 17, 2020
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Dan Jolin
A raw, lean and abrasively effective thriller from Steven Soderbergh, which features Claire Foy as we’ve never seen her before.- Empire
- Posted Mar 5, 2018
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Anna Smith
While the quirky structure could be taken as a bold move, the story still feels frustratingly incomplete, rendering the preceding hour or so a tantalising glimpse at what could have been.- Empire
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David Parkinson
Tender and touching, this gay coming-of-ages story is underpinned by a terrific, subtle turn from newcomer Florizoone.- Empire
- Posted Nov 1, 2012
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Ian Nathan
So so adaptation of the Kipling story. The human performances are riotous but their animal counterparts are blank canvases yet to be coloured.- Empire
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Simon Crook
A lurid, luminous teen-bender movie, as ludicrous as it is stylish, and Harmony Korine’s best film in years.- Empire
- Posted Apr 1, 2013
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Kim Newman
Genuinely disturbing horror but with Cronenberg producing a slightly deeper edge in his portrait of a troubled family.- Empire
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Ella Kemp
Moving and convincing as a case for romantic anxiety being the most isolating thing in the world. Fingernails is funny until it’s not: deeply romantic from the top of your head to the end of your fingernails.- Empire
- Posted Nov 3, 2023
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Kim Newman
More Damon Runyan than Irvine Welsh, but as entertaining as it is important.- Empire
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Curiously uninvolving. It never comes to life -- even after someone is found dead. Nevertheless, there are pleasures to be found in the performances, particularly in Eddie Izzard's lovelorn Chaplin and Edward Herrmann's paranoid Hearst.- Empire
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