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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 60
    Empire | Caroline Westbrook

    For all its faults, the good-natured, quirky humour that this for the most part offers ultimately makes it very hard to dislike. Read full review

  • 50
    TV Guide |

    Insubstantial, predictable and often dull, it's a dismaying move from director Allen Moyle, who displayed a real grasp of pulp energy in 1990's "Pump Up the Volume". Read full review

  • 50
    The Onion A.V. Club | Nathan Rabin

    The film exists for its shots of telegenic youngsters busting loose to a bankable soundtrack, and it's the cheesy dialogue, overstuffed plot, and predictable character arcs that come across as superfluous. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Ty Burr

    The movie is too blatant a throwback to crass '80s teen fodder to really work. Read full review

  • 38
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    If the movie is a lost cause, it may at least showcase actors who have better things ahead of them. Read full review

  • 20
    Variety | Ken Eisner

    A soundtrack in search of a movie, Empire Records is one teen-music effort that never finds a groove. Read full review

  • 0
    Los Angeles Times |

    The sun can't set too soon on this "Empire." [23 Oct 1995, Pg.F9] Read full review

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