Empire's Scores
- Movies
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For 6,820 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 6820
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Mixed: 3,654 out of 6820
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Negative: 158 out of 6820
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Helen O'Hara
The acting's better than it's ever been, but with the best will in the world, this can't get past the fact that the story's demented.- Empire
- Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Ian Freer
Slightly better than its predecessors, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 works hard to entertain — it has the odd bright moment — but overall lacks surprise, freshness or anything to set the heart racing. It’s a Saturday-morning cartoon writ long.- Empire
- Posted Dec 18, 2024
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Ian Freer
It has its pleasures but after the nuance and emotional hits of Love Is Strange and Little Men, Frankie is a disappointment. Not even la Reine, Isabelle Huppert, can elevate this one.- Empire
- Posted May 27, 2021
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Amon Warmann
Neither Bautista nor Jovovich can elevate this ugly-looking misfire. Fans of entertaining fantasy action need not apply.- Empire
- Posted Mar 18, 2025
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Angie Errigo
Devoted Trekkers will have to see it to keep abreast of the ships’ logs, but Saturday night at the flicks fun-seekers are apt to concur this one only fires on stun.- Empire
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Olly Richards
A few laughs are salvaged due to the sheer quality of the talent present.- Empire
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Anna Smith
It has charm, comedy and a populist concept, but is structurally weak and too self-consciously multicultural.- Empire
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The whole madcap production is at best faintly amusing, at worst, painfully protracted- Empire
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Kim Newman
The first film to be adapted from rather than into a Nintendo cartridge, Super Mario Bros, is a shrill, hectic and tiresome fantasy with little story, less excitement and no imaginable audience.- Empire
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The big surprise and highlight is not in the clumsily structured, jerky plot of the monotonous mood but an uncredited Robin Williams, actually chilling as a mad bomber anarchist.- Empire
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James White
A joyless and pointless remake. The new take on Bodhi and co. squanders a potentially enjoyable premise and rarely delivers, except on the occasional stunt.- Empire
- Posted Feb 1, 2016
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Light on laughs, and even lighter on drama, Kyle Mooney’s throwback high-school romcom/tech-horror shifts uneasily between its various modes and tones, but never finds its groove.- Empire
- Posted Mar 18, 2025
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It is, in fact, far from funny, although at moments it does touch upon amusing.- Empire
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Dan Jolin
Less Tales Of The Unexpected, more Tales Of The Unconvincing, this uneven comedy horror fails to handle its ambitious structure, or deliver on its promising premise.- Empire
- Posted Oct 28, 2019
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Dan Jolin
Lacks the ‘ick’ factor of the earlier Bay-directed efforts, and Fishback and Ramos do a great job as the token humans, but this is still just silly and derivative.- Empire
- Posted Jun 6, 2023
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Ian Nathan
Every motion, from the clamour of the racetrack to the sparring of teacher and pupil, has been worked out for audience satisfaction and grants none. This is not a real film, it is an automaton, a pod-movie, and, thankfully, proved the death nail for such high-concept filmmaking.- Empire
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Helen O'Hara
Objectively ridiculous but mostly fun, this is better than you could have predicted given the title but squarely aimed at a young and undiscerning audience.- Empire
- Posted Dec 26, 2016
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William Thomas
As a throwaway 80's B-movie you could do much worse. Hauer, as is his way, plays the rough and silent type, this time a cop with Scot Duncan as his partner. There is enough gore, monsters and violence to satisfy but a good plot is sadly lacking and worst of all, they even managed to make Kim Catrall look unattractive.- Empire
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Helen O'Hara
Strong performances and a few laughs, but the story feels lazy next to superior efforts recently in the same genre.- Empire
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The source material remains affecting and the cast work hard to add dimension to a lacklustre screenplay. But sadly, it adds up to less than the sum of its parts.- Empire
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Helen O'Hara
While there are fun moments, the whole is an odd mix of grotesquerie and cutesiness.- Empire
- Posted Aug 24, 2015
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Ian Freer
The astonishing true life story of The 33 deserves a better movie than this. Trite above and below ground, it is not suitable for miners. Or anyone else really.- Empire
- Posted Feb 1, 2016
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Al Horner
It could have been a tantalising coming-together of two icons of action cinema. Instead, The Iron Mask feels oddly anemic.- Empire
- Posted Apr 6, 2020
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John Nugent
Despite its wild premise — Chris Pratt goes to the future to fight aliens! — and considerable talent, The Tomorrow War is mostly just bloated blockbuster business as usual.- Empire
- Posted Jul 1, 2021
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Ian Freer
Corny and shakily plotted, it's a disappointing directorial debut from Goldsman.- Empire
- Posted Feb 17, 2014
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Helen O'Hara
This is just as unevenly plotted as the original, lacks even the element of surprise, and is not by any reasonable standard “good”. Between gooey and ghoulish, there must be better options.- Empire
- Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Dan Jolin
Marginally better than Part One, but still a weird, messy and humourless sci-fi that gives you little reason to cheer the potential continuation of this Snyderverse.- Empire
- Posted Apr 19, 2024
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Angie Errigo
Sadly the plot leaves a lot to be desired with major flaws never far away. The in-jokes are amusing but their novelty soon begins to wear thin.- Empire
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Helen O'Hara
It’s uneven and doesn’t quite hit the right balance between yuks and yuck, but the charisma of the two stars – particularly Nanjiani – carries it along. A shame to waste Uwais on such a limited role, though.- Empire
- Posted Jul 13, 2019
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Helen O'Hara
There are some amusing moments and some good performances despite the poor material, but it's not enough.- Empire
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