Empire's Scores

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For 6,821 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
6821 movie reviews
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dylan Southern’s film lacks the complexity of Max Porter’s book. But there are strong scenes, and Cumberbatch delivers a performance to crow about.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unrelenting, unremitting, a brilliant broad-brush of a parody.
  1. Despite some warm performances, it’s very hard to ignore the feeling that this is largely just two hours of product placement.
  2. It's just not quite as much fun as it should be, despite Pearce's best efforts and some good chemistry with Grace. Unusually for an action thriller, this could have benefited from being just a little longer.
  3. 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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dump thriller which trivialises the subject matter.
  4. Fun in parts, and Stallone's always watchable, but it's an '80s tribute movie that coasts along on rapidly diminishing goodwill. Beige Heat, if you will.
  5. Breaking the golden rule of thrillers - don't let the audience guess the ending from 15 minutes in - this just becomes largely pointless.
  6. As bad as cinema gets.
  7. Affleck's meta-satire riffs amusingly on celebrity culture without hitting too many faux-doc highs.
  8. Adapting a relatively uneventful short story was always going to be tricky, and despite some strong performances and wry observations, Cat Person’s disastrous ending takes everything else down with it.
  9. It's the thriller aspect that most lets the film down, failing to truly engage or offer enough plausible red herrings to send your mind whirring through different theories as to what could have happened. The twists rarely, if ever, have the impact that were intended.
  10. Like "There's Something About Mary," Orgazmo has a very sweet love story at its core, although it's more consistently entertaining, blending some outrageous moments with a surprising degree of restraint.
  11. More entertaining than "The Da Vinci Code," but still tosh.
  12. Despite being not officially a Bond film this is good solid, entertaining action.
  13. Lambert fails to convince as the action star and somehow it is left to a computer to steal the show.
  14. It's less a film than a series of skits exhumed from the Reynolds original.
  15. It may not truly capture the complexities of its source material but One Day is funny, winning and entertaining - if little else.
  16. A slick, enthralling look at the life of Vallanzasca but fails to truly get under his skin.
  17. An otherwise mundane rom-com that doesn’t know how to handle its one point-of-difference; and even that isn’t as much of a big deal as its writers think it is.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Karukoski’s entertaining film boasts flair and narrative ambition, but ultimately fails to completely break free of its traditional biopic frame.
  18. Structurally it’s a bit ragtag, but, as your mum would say, it has its heart in the right place. For all its wilful oddness it’s enchanting, imaginative and genuinely moving.
  19. Occasionally charming but mostly bland fare from Weitz, despite the reliable cast. About A Boy remains the best showcase of his talents.
  20. It’s not the fault of either star, but the half-baked script makes this an unsatisfyingly thin exploration of the weighty themes it seeks to cover. More intellectual cut-and-thrust and fewer flashbacks would have helped.
  21. Liam Gallagher: As It Was lacks the narrative shape and drama of previous Oasis doc Supersonic, but provides an interesting snapshot of an artist in transition, both professionally and personally.
  22. Quantumania isn’t as wacky as it should be, and the humongous stakes feel oddly small. But where else do you get a wild Jonathan Majors, an intense Michelle Pfeiffer and talking broccoli?
  23. An old-school film about an old-school crime that brings together an impressive array of British legends. Solid, but sadly the results don’t exactly blow the bloody doors off.
  24. Though it might charitably be described as "a load of old cods", there is a certain entertainment value to Murder At 1600.
  25. Very hit and miss and not a patch on the first spoof but when a joke strikes home it'll have you going for a while.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    As a stylish black comedy its uncompromising nature should be applauded, though as an indictment of the hopelessly violent American society, the message gets lost.

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