Average Rating: 4.3/10
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Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 16
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A funky little record shop provides the setting for this youthful comedy that centers on the workers there as they try to help poor Joe Anthony LaPaglia), the manager who really wants to buy the place, recoup his losses after his well-meaning, but dim-bulbed employee Lucas (Rory Cochrane ) steals his savings and loses it all in Atlantic City while trying to increase it twofold at the gaming tables. If they cannot come up with the loot, the mega-chain Music City will buy it. ~ Sandra Brennan,
Oct 20, 1995 Wide
Apr 3, 2001
Warner Home Video
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (18) | DVD (20)
A soundtrack in search of a movie, Empire Records is one teen-music effort that never finds a groove.
If the movie is a lost cause, it may at least showcase actors who have better things ahead of them.
Insubstantial, predictable and often dull.
One of the hippest and most enjoyable movies of the 90s. This ROCKS!
Overall, fatally ersatz but good natured at heart.
...things just move quickly from one person's conflicts to another, with little momentum or feeling of satisfaction.
One of the movie's characters remarks that "Without rock music, life would be meaningless." Perhaps, and as the music fades into obscurity, this movie becomes largely meaningless.
Leaves you with the sensation of having chewed a piece of bubblegum until well after its flavour ran dry.
[Leaves the] impression of artificiality.
The Empire Strikes Out . . . lame Gen-X "comedy" that falls completely flat . . . Go rent CLERKS
Empire Records is little more than a poor man's Clerks, but an entertaining one.
"Damn the Man! Save the Empire!"The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain. REVIEWThe theme of Empire Records is the struggle of man against the greed of the corporate machine. Empire Records is an independent music
April 4, 2009
Super Reviewer
I kinda liked it. It's nothing more than a guilty pleasure.
May 23, 2011
Super Reviewer
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