Empire's Scores

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For 6,820 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 0.8 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:
6820 movie reviews
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This thriller can't decide if it's a childrens thriller meant for adults or an adult thriller meant for kids, but ends up entertaining no-one.
  1. Despite Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose's best efforts, this fine-dining horror only elicits a few scares. The food looks delicious, and the knife skills are on point, but genre fans will likely want to eat elsewhere.
  2. It’s not just the demonic possession victims whose eyes will be rolling back in their skulls – none of this should work, really, and yet the film just about gets away with it, proving the Lord truly does move in mysterious ways.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    This is cornily predictable stuff, but it raises itself on a number of counts, with Murphy's transformation from a self-assured cocksman to bewildered, lovesick drip being approached with greater gusto than might be expected.
  3. If not a train-wreck, this is certainly more than a fender-bender. In a world overflowing with targets for a satirical pasting, we needed something a lot sharper than this.
  4. A frustratingly soft documentary that would sooner teach the world to sing than get to the bottom of the Bin Laden enigma.
  5. Bigger, better and more polished than the first, with a quite satisfactory ratio of action set-pieces and a lot of juvenile japery squarely aimed at its PG and fanboy audience.
  6. It’s breezily fun at times, in a what-the-hey way. But, lumbered with a story that struggles to find resonance beyond its improbable plot devices and preposterous MacGuffinry, Justice League isn’t about to steal Avengers’ super-team crown.
  7. 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Despite the compelling high concept — and some epic action set-pieces — there’s not quite enough meat on the bones of this dystopian follow-up to make it truly worthy of its predecessor. 
  8. It's bad enough to ban on purely artistic grounds.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Covers disappointingly predictable territory for an actor of Ford's skills and reputation.
  9. Nicholas Hoult does his best to bring Niven's weapons-grade scumbag to life, in a film hobbled by amateurish acting and absence of production value.
  10. An uncomfortable, if intriguing, mess.
  11. Too safe to shock and too familiar to really frighten, this is an overly conventional affair.
  12. Schnabel doesn't comes close to the quiet power of his last feature, "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly," delivering a story that can't match the scope or scale of Rula Jebreal's source material.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    An overly complicated plot and poorly thought-out characters detract from the flashes of charm that Cap'n Jack still emits. Despite quality set-pieces and the best efforts of the cast, this is dull and crossbones.
  13. A Sheltering Sky-lite romantic travelogue that, despite its two leads, lacks any real spark.
  14. A rerun of the first one but satan junior is now a teenager.
  15. A hyperactive hot-pink mess of a movie, which fails to elevate its cubic source material and revels in that failure like it’s achieving something.
  16. A superb Kidman takes off the handbrake, and most everything else, in Daniels' southern-fried follow-up to "Precious." Watch it with "Killer Joe" for the ultimate sweaty, twisted double-bill.
  17. Scuppered by a lazy script that fails to effectively build tension, Unforgettable lives up to its name, but not for the right reasons.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Another 'nice' Sandler comedy that works, thanks to some smart and genuinely moving ideas at its core.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Handicapped by pretensions to making big statements, Blindness is still gripping, disturbing and intermittently powerful.
  18. Over-indulgent and melodramatic, as is the nature of artistic mythmaking, The Golden Age will beguile and repel in equal measure. The performances are supreme, although some viewers may struggle to reconcile the director’s epic intentions.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sadly, beyond the wigs, costumes and exquisite set design, its a vacant enterprise.
  19. A brilliantly high-concept title and some decent gore aside, you're better off watching the version in your head. It will be infinitely more fun and have markedly improved production values.
  20. A moving and often funny self-portrayal of Chapman that will delight Python fans.
  21. The first one offered the novel sight of Oskar Schindler going Commando. Unfortunately, this half-hearted sequel is low on novelty and lower on fun.
  22. Though short on shocks and mild in horror terms, Fresnadillo's fantasy has a lot of heart and sincerity in equal measure.

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