Empire's Scores

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For 6,818 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 0.9 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:
6818 movie reviews
  1. Challengingly spellbinding.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Despite some choice improvisations, we're given no running gag as endearing as the first film.
  2. A brittle black comedy that has plenty to say about modern manhood and the human survival instinct.
  3. It’s "Top Gun" with gamer’s thumb. Ethan Hawke shines in a complex, satisfying character study turned combat thriller.
  4. Even with a starry cast, the stirring true story is this drama’s standout feature.
  5. A giddy helping of artful violence delivered with a wink and a cheeky grin. Unsurprisingly, John Wick 2 is already in the works.
  6. Less of a riot than Wright’s previous Grabbers, Robot Overlords displays the same knowing intelligence, sense of fun and deep-rooted love for post-’70s genre film. Unlike its titular villains, it’s sleek and it never malfunctions.
  7. More compelling when focusing on long-serving staff and their skills and opinions
  8. It’s an odd mix of "Saving Private Ryan" odyssey and romantic melodrama. It has sincerity, sensitivity and is often ravishing to look at but is let down by a chocolate box love story. Still, Crowe still might have a "Braveheart"/"Dances With Wolves" in him yet.
  9. Noah Bamubach’s While We’re Young is the best Woody Allen film of 2015. A fast, funny, smart take on generational jealousy, with Ben Stiller and Adam Driver on great form.
  10. A group more bulletproof than The Avengers, causing more mayhem than General Zod. Think Universal doesn’t have a superhero franchise? Think again.
  11. This reflection on isolation, technology, creativity and desire brilliantly blurs the lines between perception and voyeurism, the objective and the subjective.
  12. Belying its title, this is a pretty flaccid offering which fails to gel the comedy stylings of Hart and Ferrell.
  13. On one level a fascinating refraction of the Amanda Knox trial into an examination of perception, on another an increasingly trying hall of mirrors.
  14. Over-familiar and the first half's pace is sea-sluggish but with inspired touches.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This swords-and-sorcery throwback has little imagination on display, instead doubling down on computer-generated flair to pass the time.
  15. William Eubank continues to work his particular mind-stretching mix of acute character interplay and cosmic conceptual breakthrough.
  16. A retrograde fantasy with the depth of a dressing-up box, but it’s spirited, genuinely funny and played to the hilt by an excellent cast.
  17. A sensitive, sincere and humbling profile which is truly inspirational.
  18. A decent cast gives it more credibility than it deserves.
  19. Dolan has previously been accused of style over substance but here he draws both magnificently together. It’s perhaps a little too long, but Mommy is a movie to make you feel alive.
  20. Sub-Ludlum plotting but stylishly executed, this offers a fun night out but is far from a nailed-on franchise-starter.
  21. Full-force performance form Ryan Reynolds but not as funny as it hopes it is.
  22. Unique, beautiful and endlessly fascinating. It really is a work of art.
  23. Once you swallow the giant pill that is the premise, it just about makes sense, and Woodley sells it with all her conviction.
  24. With Neeson on fine form and an encouraging start, it’s a shame that this gritty crime drama feels the need to erupt into a full-blown action movie by the end.
  25. Sterling performances lift the occasionally soapy storyline in this semi-successful adaptation.
  26. Writer-director Gerard Johnson and chameleon-like star Ferdinando continue to impress with their strong collaboration here.
  27. Blomkamp’s third movie has just about enough spectacle and quirk to overcome some fairly major flaws, not least of which is an unappealing central trio.
  28. A final opportunity to see a master at work in this mischievously melancholic delight.

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