Empire's Scores
- Movies
- TV
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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Kim Newman
The first film had its moment of charm, and the cast were good enough to overcome the downright stupidity of the storyline, but this is simply a dreary bore that takes advantage of a terrific cast by moving them about on the screen without giving them anything to do. One long yawn.- Empire
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Kim Newman
It may not be as good as the material it's sourcing, but it's still fun to see so many faces from the genre in one place.- Empire
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Amon Warmann
Despite strong performances from Cookson and Dench, this potentially exciting espionage tale is dreary and forgettable.- Empire
- Posted Apr 17, 2019
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The quintessential Lynch. Prepare to be confused/intrigued/frustrated/disturbed/hooked.- Empire
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John Nugent
A big, lumbering bastard of an action movie sequel. It achieves more-or-less exactly what it promises — which, given this franchise’s track record, is a low bar to clear.- Empire
- Posted Aug 21, 2019
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William Thomas
Wildly uneven, but funny in a bittersweet tittery sort of way in places.- Empire
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Amon Warmann
This is a come-for-Lopez, stay-for-Lopez endeavour, and she’s on fine, movie star form in this serviceable, if forgettable action thriller.- Empire
- Posted May 15, 2023
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Erman could have made a movie that left the Bette Midler stereotype in the eighties where it belonged, but he didn't. Great if you're a Bette fan, somewhat trying if you're not, though thankfully some of the sheer hamminess has been dulled with time.- Empire
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C&W lovers will lap it up - look out for some stellar Nashville cameos - and there's big-lunged uplift to see you through the cornball plot turns.- Empire
- Posted Mar 21, 2011
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Olly Richards
Ridiculous, of course, but not as ridiculous as it might have been. As much fun as it has with the idea of animals stomping cities to rubble, it seems shy of going completely over the top, and it’s the poorer for it.- Empire
- Posted Apr 11, 2018
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More The Wild Geese than The Wild Bunch, The Expendables is not a wasted opportunity, but more one not fully exploited.- Empire
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William Thomas
Strays from the boundaries of believability a little too much to be regarding anything other than a throw-away comedy.- Empire
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Alan Morrison
Formula is now the name of the game, although a steady diet of stunts and shootouts ensures that the audience is never bored.- Empire
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Ian Freer
Peter Bogdanovich's attempt to update the screwball of the Golden Age lacks the requisite elegance, wit and charm.- Empire
- Posted Jun 23, 2015
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- Posted Jan 18, 2011
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Kim Newman
Although adequately put together, this is entirely unnecessary as a movie, with nothing to add to its limited interest sub-genre, no surprises at all in its by-the-numbers script, and no credit at all to the various servicable members of the cast.- Empire
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Helen O'Hara
Franchise fans will enjoy seeing the Lamberts again, but newcomers will be baffled by the under-developed story and nonplussed by the over-familiar scares.- Empire
- Posted Jul 7, 2023
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Ian Nathan
In all, Legends Of The Fall is a grand bore, more laughable than stirring. So big everything becomes blurry and distant, so beautiful it could be ad for male hair products.- Empire
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Helen O'Hara
The inconsistencies in tone - is it an Anchorman-style farce or something more serious? - distract from likeable turns from the leads.- Empire
- Posted Mar 11, 2013
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Nick de Semlyen
Come for Nic Cage fighting a robot alligator with a mop. Stay for some inventive licks on the dead-by-dawn horror-movie template, though the other characters are nothing to shriek about.- Empire
- Posted Feb 11, 2021
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John Nugent
There’s much to chew on in Cherry, and not all of it works. But a never-better performance from Tom Holland, and some bold directorial choices, make it a mostly compelling watch.- Empire
- Posted Feb 25, 2021
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Alex Godfrey
It’s all a little too lightweight, and not above corniness and sentimentality, but it does earn its little emotional breakthroughs, modest as they are. And the sense of time and place is vivid.- Empire
- Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Angie Errigo
This is actually better than it may sound, though rather less charming than it would like to, and needs to be.- Empire
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A script that suffers the same problem as its characters -- lack of confidence -- is in dire need of a fire being lit under its arse. All involved could do with learning a thing or two from some scoundrels of the 'dirty, rotten' school.- Empire
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Jonathan Pile
There is fun to be had.... But it essentially feels like an overlong, mega-budgeted episode of a Saturday-morning serial.- Empire
- Posted Mar 23, 2017
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Kim Newman
If there are post-Harry Potter children who don’t know or care about The Wizard of Oz, they might be at sea with this story about a not-very-nice grownup in a magic land, but long-term Oz watchers will be enchanted and enthralled. There’s even a musical number, albeit an abbreviated one. Mila Kunis gets a gold star for excellence in bewitchery and Sam Raimi can settle securely behind the curtain as a mature master of illusion.- Empire
- Posted Mar 4, 2013
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Owen Williams
A bloody-knuckled fightfest, back-dropped by the beautiful Welsh countryside, this defies its budget to bring a little epic to Viking Britain.- Empire
- Posted Sep 2, 2016
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Dan Jolin
All the boys might love Mandy Lane - discerning horror fans, however, will not.- Empire
- Posted Apr 23, 2013
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Simon Crook
Delivering knockout action and political punch, this blazing siren of a B movie imagines America at civil war with vicious force. Sequel, please.- Empire
- Posted Sep 4, 2017
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This is a hoot, the kind of hammy horror romp you wouldn't kick out of the video on a wet Wednesday night.- Empire
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