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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Ian Nathan
Superbly styled in techno-Gothic space-grunge chic, this sci-fi/horror cross-breed is a directorial triumph of reference and homage.- Empire
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James White
The Kitchen flits through scenes, coming across as its own trailer rather than a full movie. And it makes disappointing use of its great components, wasting three chewy, thoughtful core performances.- Empire
- Posted Sep 16, 2019
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Ian Freer
The result reaches overload very quickly, squandering the potentially cool premise in a headlong assault of set-piece over story.- 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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- Posted Mar 18, 2013
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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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Sophie Butcher
Despite solid performances and flashes of promise, Morbius is a flat, forgettable affair, failing to deliver an anti-hero origin story we can really sink our teeth into.- Empire
- Posted Mar 31, 2022
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Ben Travis
It’s far from the perfect storm, but The Hurricane Heist is stupid fun with a belter of a final sequence. Like the sound of a film called ‘The Hurricane Heist’? Then you’ll probably enjoy The Hurricane Heist.- Empire
- Posted Apr 2, 2018
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It's not just the saturated ultra-violence which make this film difficult to watch - there is something just not convincing about this vehicle for Costner's darker side. One thing is for sure though, driving a Jeep will never be the same again.- Empire
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James White
Unpacking classic fiction that has already been adapted a few times, once to critical acclaim, is no easy task. Yet while it’s not completely up to the challenge, The Turning at least offers up enough moody chills and a lead in Mackenzie Davis it’s not hard to root for as the craziness builds.- Empire
- Posted Jan 24, 2020
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Director Blanks delivers a wholly pedestrian feature debut in this by-numbers teen horror flick that could give you the impression Scream never really happened.- Empire
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Damon Wise
A bang-on soundtrack will make the hairs on ex-ravers' necks stand up. The plot will have the opposite effect.- Empire
- Posted Aug 26, 2013
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- Posted Mar 16, 2015
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- Posted Jun 23, 2015
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William Thomas
A self-consciously grubby and silly slasher that'll be lapped up by gorehounds, but which really belongs on the rental shelves.- Empire
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Simon Crook
The Expendables 3 has its cake and shoots it: armed to the nipples with vast action and bulging A-listers, but over-over-blown and overcrowded. See it for Gibson’s big-bad.- Empire
- Posted Aug 13, 2014
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Ian Freer
Part mystery, part black comedy, part metaphor for loss, Patrick is a nakedly true original. It also has the best caravan fight since Kill Bill Vol. 2.- Empire
- Posted Nov 20, 2020
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James White
A stylistic departure from the shaky aesthetic of the first film. Sadly, most of its nervy shocks and creeping sense of unease go the same way.- Empire
- Posted Jun 3, 2013
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Ian Freer
This all feels a long way from Chandor’s glory days of Margin Call and All Is Lost. Save the occasional flourish, Kraven The Hunter is limp, tired, uninvolving superhero fare.- Empire
- Posted Dec 11, 2024
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Helen O'Hara
Two charming leads don't make up for a comedy that just doesn't quite deliver the laughs it should.- Empire
- Posted Sep 26, 2011
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It’s no Scream. Or, indeed, The Babadook. But Kevin Williamson’s meta-slasher has solid emotional underpinning and a handful of ace scenes. And Sidney-f*cking-Prescott.- Empire
- Posted Feb 26, 2026
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William Thomas
A blockbuster that offers enough quirky pleasures to feel fresh and unpredictable.- Empire
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For an exposé very little is actually revealed, but as a neon-lit trawl through '70s New York, it's worth a look.- Empire
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Nick de Semlyen
The wee'uns may enjoy the forest-based capers but for adults this is no pickernick.- Empire
- Posted Feb 7, 2011
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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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Dan Jolin
Stupid, with three o's. But also fun, never boring, and never insulting (to anyone other than Dumas) - unlike certain of the summer's A-pics…- Empire
- Posted Oct 10, 2011
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Angie Errigo
More terrible and tacky than one could have imagined, it will soon be forgotten and consigned to the True Movies channel to play alongside television movies about Karen Carpenter, Jayne Mansfield and Jackie Kennedy.- Empire
- Posted Sep 16, 2013
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