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
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Much slimmed down in a canny script by W. D. Richter, it has become a value-for-money horror movie with a streak of welcome black comedy.
  1. Whilst this takes itself a little too lightly it has a lot going for it.
  2. Poor remake of the Korean thriller.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Though Cage and Armstrong’s father-daughter dynamic merits praise, The Old Way tries so hard to emulate Westerns past that it squanders a gilt-edged opportunity to do something new.
  3. The bones of the story have been played a million times, but a talented and committed cast make this swoonsome rather than samey.
  4. Great performances from the young cast just can't make up for the overly familiar plot and pre-teen excesses of the action.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Though occasionally inventive and affecting, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a tonal mess. Romantic and other emotional struggles depicted may ring true, but that and strong lead performances can’t save the uneven whole.
  5. Spader and Cusack go through the motions as political sparring partners in this coming of age drama.
  6. Another of the film's positive aspects is its narrative style, reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon.
  7. It's nothing more than an enjoyable, ridiculously macho B-movie romp, but it's derson' best movie since the underrated Event Horizon. Perhaps, at long last, he' starting to find his - yep - top gear.
  8. It's gratifying to see Butler giving a proper acting role the old college try. Despite his best efforts, Forster's film, while pulling no punches, still somehow manages to miss the mark.
  9. A premise neutered by daft supernatural shenanigans, which raise as many questions as they answer.
  10. An inoffensive but inessential addition to Neeson’s latter-years thriller canon. Less the bus that couldn’t slow down than the car that couldn’t get started.
  11. A solid performance let down by a script that cherry-picks the facts and ultimately tells us less than we already know. Watch Asif Kapadia’s Amy instead.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It's easy to criticise Conan. Cheesy. Dated. And ever-so-slightly fascist (Conan is the ultimate Aryan: punishing the weak and defending the strong, while looking great in thigh-high boots). But while all that's true, for Arnie fans, the film still rocks.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Freundlich's intelligent, very funny take on male-female relationships manages the not inconsiderable feat of being both jaded and appealingly fresh.
  12. Often funny, outrageously vulgar in places and very, very French.
  13. Better than Last Stand or Apocalypse but never hitting the heights of X2, Dark Phoenix thrives when its heroes are front and centre. If this is the end, it’s a solid rather than spectacular goodbye.
  14. Innately sweet, due to the high number of fluffy animals, but it has the gloopy emotion and silly plotting of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Nicholas Barks, if you will.
  15. Despite a game cast, The New Mutants’ horror elements aren’t very scary and as a superhero movie it fails to truly excite. A disappointing finale to Fox’s X-Men franchise.
  16. The end result, while not entirely unrewarding, is another step away from the singular vision Cronenberg once expressed even in his marginal works.
  17. Snake Eyes finally speaks, but with frustrating action scenes, a middling story and unearned sequel-baiting, there’s not much here that’s worth listening to, or watching.
  18. Essentially a Split sequel with an Unbreakable topping, this is weaker than either of those films but still has a decent amount of entertaining and creepy sequences, most of them due to McAvoy’s high-commitment performance.
  19. Perhaps the best film ever aimed at eight year-old girls to be directed by a 69 year-old man.
  20. Carrey tries hard but the success of his excessiveness has always been down to pegging it to good plots and good partners.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    An opulent and accurate portrayal of the period that drags too much to stay interesting.
  21. This hastily-produced sequel ignores the dreamstalking premise that had made A Nightmare on Elm Street successful and reverts to the overfamiliar possession story.
  22. There is the odd funny moment, but The Art Of Racing In The Rain relies too heavily on the charms of its golden retriever. It might be built on the notion that dogs are the wisest of us all, but the end result winds up stupid.
  23. For fans of the Big Bug movies in the 60's this will come as a pleasant surprise with not only the first to made in a while but also the first good one for a long time. Ticks is enjoyably fluff which contains unexpectedly convincing effects and enough of the required screaming of innocent victims.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Boasting more star power than all the Anacondas put together, but noticeably fewer laughs, what could have been a fresh take on familiar material ends up a regurgitated mess.

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