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 0.7 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
  1. Incompetent and mostly just quite boring, Assassin Club doesn’t even have the good grace to be so-bad-it’s-good. Rough, rough stuff.
  2. Big sci-fi ideas done on a budget doesn't quite translate into a compelling thriller.
  3. With all these folks in the same movie, there are inevitably moments when Hoffman or Wilson get a laugh, but on the whole it's the same again but weaker and with fewer good jokes. We're too tired of the gag even to think of a 'focker' line to sign off the review.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A dark domestic comedy that continuously shirks the courage of its convictions.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    As an origin story that’s all origins and no story, there’s a hollow, stale feeling to this occasionally admirable attempt to Nolanise Marvel’s dysfunctional family.
  4. Jaws but bigger, more mammal, and just plain bad.
  5. The movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you won’t believe a word of it.
  6. Eddie Murphy’s Dr. Dolittle generated four sequels. On this showing, Downey Jr’s will be a standalone, an uncynical but mostly lacklustre kids’ flick that doesn’t find its voice, animal or otherwise.
  7. Brawny but brainless techno-twaddle.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Unsurprisingly this film is weak. The final film in a weak trilogy, filled with weak characters, who have weak dialogue and feature in a, you guessed it, weak plot. Thankfully Travolta's next film would be Pulp Fiction giving his career a well-needed boost, it's a shame the same couldn't said for Allie.
  8. A botched Guardians wannabe that isn’t half as fun as you’d hope from the punky sci-fi promise of its video-game source material and the presence of Blanchett at the top of the cast list.
  9. Madame Web isn’t much worse than the rest of the SPUMC, give or take, but it’s not really better, either. Its minimal saving grace is that it doesn’t require much familiarity with the wider universe.
  10. Citizens On Patrol might well have been subtitled When The Rot Set In.
  11. Elba's reunites with Luther director Sam Miller to lesser effect in a workaday home-invasion thriller.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A mercenary display of product placement and a bad advertisment for filmmaking.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    So the prognosis is generally positive, though there may be a touch too much sugar in this motion picture panacea, which is, in places, shamelessly sentimental to an extraordinarily manipulative degree.
  12. 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.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This  Blithe Spirit dilutes the original’s heady cocktail, serving up a sugary punch rather than a dry martini.
  13. Dialogue is all-cliché, a decent cast get not much to go on (if Wonder Woman put Nielsen back on the map, this does her few favours), and even the action scenes have a rushed, unfinished feel.
  14. Every bit as contrived as the leading lady's hairstyles, and rather less technically impressive, this is still trashy fun.
  15. It huffs and puffs to entertain but Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 falls flat on most levels. Animatronic chickens wreaking havoc should be much more fun.
  16. Loopy, film-literate and full-bore, it's a sadistic '70s thriller in modern-day garb.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Megaton’s choppy editing barely disguises his star’s hatred of running, while a brutal 12A neutering lessens what limited fun remains in seeing Oscar Schindler creakily throw a Russian bad ‘un into some supermarket shelves.
  17. Technically ambitious, dramatically basic. Still, it's a major step up from an AvP sequel and delivers all the Saturday night whizz-bang and Sunday morning brain-ripping you could want.
  18. As a last hurrah for a once great action icon, Rambo: Last Blood is a damp squib. Put your headbands at half mast and remember him from his glory days.
  19. Manages to be both very silly and highly forgettable. Only for those who collect killer-children films.
  20. Maybe it’s fitting Playmobil: The Movie is old-fashioned, stiff and only suitable for those between the ages of four and ten, but it sure isn’t much fun.
  21. An unfunny, unfocused sub-SNL baseball comedy that makes the likes of Joe Dirt and Deuce Bigalow seem vintage.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    If ever there was lawful impediment for a marriage to not go ahead, it's this mess of a movie.
  22. Driven by cliches and almost completely ignoring the psychological growth of the children coping with the loss of their parents, it doesn't take long for this to descent into meaningless schlock.

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