Empire's Scores
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For 6,821 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 0.9 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 6821
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Mixed: 3,655 out of 6821
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Negative: 158 out of 6821
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Dan Jolin
Stupid, with three o's. But also fun, never boring, and never insulting (to anyone other than Dumas) - unlike certain of the summer's A-pics…- Empire
- Posted Oct 10, 2011
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Ella Kemp
Woman Of The Hour isn’t the serial-killer thriller you’d expect, but more noble for it. Kendrick shows promise as a director, her lacklustre male antagonist hammering home this film’s purpose.- Empire
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Newcomer Mason Gamble manages to be terminally cute without getting on your nerves, and his reluctant friendship with prissy eight-year-old feminist-with-a-lisp Margaret (who tricks his friend into kissing her doll's bum and then taunts him with the "baby-rump-kisser") is simply hysterical.- Empire
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Kim Newman
The epitome of middle-brow 'quality' drama -- admirable within its limitations, but Bernard Schlink's Oprah Winfrey Book Club-approved book wasn't exactly literature, as this isn't exactly cinema.- Empire
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Amon Warmann
Operating with more of a steady pulse than a full-on thrill-ride, this revenge flick exchanges fists for brains with only decent results.- Empire
- Posted Apr 8, 2025
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It has managed, admirably, to strike a balance between the wholesome 'school nerd blossoms' fairy tale and the gross-out comedy that is now a teen movie standard.- Empire
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Renner’s solid performance anchors a formidable ensemble in the type of well-intentioned docudrama more likely to leave your head shaking than your pulse pounding.- Empire
- Posted Mar 2, 2015
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Chris Hewitt (1)
Blomkamp’s third movie has just about enough spectacle and quirk to overcome some fairly major flaws, not least of which is an unappealing central trio.- Empire
- Posted Mar 5, 2015
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Ian Nathan
This is a valiant but overcomplicated Western that aims to redraw the lines on Western mythology: with heroes as mere humans, and heroics as distortions of the truth.- Empire
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William Thomas
Whatever his intentions, the finished product is about as deep and meaningful as you’d expect from a work starring the Man Who Is Clark Griswold. Which is a good thing really, as, uncomplicated, genuinely funny comedy players are thin on the ground at the moment, and it means Memoirs can carry off the semi-slapstick, borderline-cretinous gags with pace and panache.- Empire
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William Thomas
An insipid '80s nostalgia piece really, held together by Fox's performance and several neat turns from his support.- Empire
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William Thomas
Kids will love it but adults may find it just too silly to sit through.- Empire
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Olly Richards
If you can make it through the bland schmaltz of the first half you'll be rewarded with a spectacular blast of sustained action and the promise of even better to come. This could be the start of something great.- Empire
- Posted Feb 26, 2011
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Laura Venning
It’s a real pleasure to be whisked across the world by Baumbach, but perhaps this cinematic glass of Prosecco goes down rather too easily.- Empire
- Posted Dec 5, 2025
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Ian Nathan
Enough large-scale spectacle scenes to outweigh the inevitable religiose sludge that creeps in between them.- Empire
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A good shout if your kids like this sort of thing, otherwise best head to your local aquarium.- Empire
- Posted Oct 10, 2011
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Damon Wise
John C Reilly just about holds together a funny but patchy comedy that puts a ten-megaton bomb under the cliched rock biopic – and never detonates it.- Empire
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Anna Smith
Not all of it works but it does breeze along, thanks to its likable characters and dry wit.- Empire
- Posted Mar 2, 2015
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William Thomas
Sheen thrives in the guise of the idiosyncratic Clough in a brilliantly candid, if bitty, football parable.- Empire
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Beth Webb
Though it doesn’t stray far beyond fan service, this is a comfortable extension of a beloved British show that delivers a reliable mix of quotable comedy and heart.- Empire
- Posted Aug 16, 2021
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Angie Errigo
Handsomely done but short on the atmosphere and passion of a genre classic.- Empire
- Posted Jun 8, 2017
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Nick de Semlyen
Some great acting and visuals make up for this thriller’s frostiness.- Empire
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Olly Richards
Ror all its cleverness, Emily Rose does have its hokey moments.- Empire
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Impressive because Loach keeps things simple in an accurate social study.- Empire
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Ian Freer
An engaging, if familiar, mix of teen rites of passage, the fun of friendship and mooning over a cool girl. Still, Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne make for a watchable duo.- Empire
- Posted Aug 19, 2015
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Not exactly ground-breaking, but an engaging story prettily told.- Empire
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Dan Jolin
Best enjoyed for the fun, slick action and the astonishing, super-expressive realisation of Alita herself, because elsewhere it’s cyberpunk business as usual, marred by some sloppy plotting.- Empire
- Posted Jan 31, 2019
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Anna Smith
A frothy and often charming directorial effort from Hoffman, his first in a Hollywood career that's spanned five decades, that will keep Downton fans happy.- Empire
- Posted Dec 31, 2012
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