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Empire of the Sun (1987): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Empire of the Sun is a 1987 drama, war film directed by Steven Spielberg. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, 62 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 77 while Metacritic critics give it 62, a gap of 15 points in favor of audiences. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 8 of 87 films from 1987 in our catalog and number 559 of 3,595 drama films.

Billed cast: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips.

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