Empire's Scores
- Movies
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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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Kim Newman
Smart, fun, mid-list horror with Scream overtones- Empire
- Posted Apr 13, 2015
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By no means the disaster many might have expected following its years-long delay. You’ll like it. Not a lot, but you’ll like it.- Empire
- Posted Oct 15, 2024
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Landis' latest keeps you laughing not with it's originality (of which there is little) but with it's confidence to out-joke it's predecessors on this much-trodden ground.- Empire
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Flawed, certainly, but by no means the horror-show its paltry box-office performance would suggest.- Empire
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Not the reunion between Lau and Leung that fans might have been craving, nor the decadent deep-dive into Hong Kong’s boom-time that the film could and should have been.- Empire
- Posted Jan 12, 2024
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John Nugent
A heck of a debut from first-timer Shawn Simmons, and another powerful argument for A-list status for Samara Weaving. Bring on the sequel, which is obliged to be titled Miny Moe.- Empire
- Posted Aug 22, 2025
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Ian Freer
Midway is a big, bold, brazen attempt to detail one of World War II’s most significant moments. But in a post Saving Private Ryan-Dunkirk landscape, it feels astonishing anyone is still making war movies like this.- Empire
- Posted Nov 6, 2019
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William Thomas
An affectionate and entertaining tribute to the Western - but, Estevez aside, Young Guns II doesn't exactly add much to the old genre.- Empire
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Chris Hewitt (1)
Hiddleston and Olsen impress, and the music remains golden, but this is just another by-the-numbers biopic.- Empire
- Posted Apr 18, 2016
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Ian Freer
The leads work hard and there’s an attempt to add fun via cheesy music and Salma Hayek, but hackneyed dynamics, half-baked action sequences and saying “m#th&rf$ck*r” does not a Shane Black make.- Empire
- Posted Aug 23, 2017
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In the world of Mob Land, nothing good lasts. Disappointingly, despite the cast’s best efforts and a few striking visual flourishes, nothing good lasts in the film itself either.- Empire
- Posted Aug 31, 2023
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Helen O'Hara
The Wild roars back from a rocky opening act to a storming last reel, just managing to claw its way above comparisons with "Madagascar."- Empire
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Nick de Semlyen
A disappointingly tame and unimaginative effort, which throws away much of what was best-loved about the original and fails to find worthy replacements.- Empire
- Posted May 19, 2015
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Colin Kennedy
Everybody is good at one thing, they say; for Emmerich, it's destruction.- Empire
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In this stereotypically-fuelled moralistic gangster movie, the plot is poor, the acting worse and standing at three hours, proves about three hours too long.- Empire
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Dan Jolin
With Hercules, Brett Ratner and Dwayne Johnson are out to entertain you — no more, no less. And that is just what they do.- Empire
- Posted Jul 23, 2014
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Ian Nathan
Here is a film fully xenophobic, abhorrent film, touting guileless version of military honour, but with Jack Cardiff’s furtive camerawork and some excellent editing, it sucks you in to its disturbing heroic sweep.- Empire
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Caroline Westbrook
While not exactly poised to bother the old grey matter too much, will provide a great night's entertainment for sitcom lovers everywhere. But doing for childbirth what Four Weddings And A Funeral did for nuptials remains an unlikely proposition.- Empire
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William Thomas
It's safe, it's mainstream and it's silly, but Guttenberg and Hannah strike up enough chemistry to give this big budget apparition at least a little depth.- Empire
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James Dyer
A largely uninspiring re-tread of a superior film, this has some decent moments and enough gnarly deaths to keep horror hounds vaguely entertained until the inevitable arrival of ‘Bird Box Santorini’.- Empire
- Posted Jul 10, 2023
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Kim Newman
If the series wants to become a franchise, a rethink and new blood will be necessary -- maybe Banderas can get mortally wounded in reel one of The Son Of Zorro, passing on the mask and sword to, say, Gael García Bernal.- Empire
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James White
The truly effective emotional arc is handed to the furry member of the cast.- Empire
- Posted Aug 3, 2015
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Jimi Famurewa
Scabrous, watchable and deceptively provocative, Jon Stewart’s political parable may be slightly out of step with the political reality of 2020 — but Carell and Byrne do enough to earn your VOD vote.- Empire
- Posted Jun 23, 2020
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Angie Errigo
Cute, cute, cute. No bouquets for originality, but it pushes all the buttons of this mini-genre, and Heigl and Marsden ring dem bells.- Empire
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Sophie Butcher
Despite some fun action excess and an impressively committed performance from Bill Skarsgård, Boy Kills World is a muddled, tiring mess, favouring violent shocks over cohesive storytelling.- Empire
- Posted Apr 25, 2024
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Nick de Semlyen
The film strains in two different directions, half trying to stay true to its based-on-fact roots, half wanting to ditch all that and become a ridiculous farce.- Empire
- Posted Oct 5, 2015
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Competent and well-cast, but it crams too much into the runtime and loses the elegance of the novel.- Empire
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Angie Errigo
A curious mix of Britpop music cues and moppet-bait storytelling makes for a diverting, if derivative kids' animation.- Empire
- Posted Sep 3, 2014
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