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mammalazz

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I cant help it I love this movie it has a very simple concept to it just another teen movie but this is one that I just cant help watching over and over and bonus It has great music too

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Posted jan 24, 2008 11:18 pm pt

NoOneIsAlone

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For some reason I did not enjoy this film as much as I would like to. There are several things that fail here, for example, some of the acting is not that good and I think that the comedy here was way too forced here. I did not enjoy it much.

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Posted apr 14, 2007 4:02 am pt

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This is a fun, if stereo-typical, romp through a day in the life of (really) six counter-culter youth employees and their boss at Empire Records.

While this film has a rather generic plot, the characters are engaging, energetic, and...
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This is a fun, if stereo-typical, romp through a day in the life of (really) six counter-culter youth employees and their boss at Empire Records.

While this film has a rather generic plot, the characters are engaging, energetic, and all around fun. It's nice to sit back and watch the characters struggle to make this day like everyother. Once the drama starts to take hold, their lives are launched into mania, hysterica for some, and they begin to turn on each other.

A great film, with awesome music, this is a fun romp through the aisles of Empire Records, worthy of at least one trip a year.

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Posted jan 21, 2007 3:11 pm pt

• [+] Empire
  
  60
  For all its faults, the good-natured, quirky humour that this for the most part offers ultimately makes it very hard to dislike.

  by Caroline Westbrook | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  50
  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.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  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".

  by Staff (not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  42
  The movie is too blatant a throwback to crass '80s teen fodder to really work.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  38
  If the movie is a lost cause, it may at least showcase actors who have better things ahead of them.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  20
  A soundtrack in search of a movie, Empire Records is one teen-music effort that never finds a groove.

  by Ken Eisner | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
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  The sun can't set too soon on this "Empire." [23 Oct 1995, Pg.F9]

  by David Kronke | Read Full Review »