An epic finale, this overlong, overstuffed film manages to neatly resolve all the loose ends from the previous entry, even if it takes considerable time to do so.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 27, 2020

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is marginally more coherent than last year's sequel-a very small mercy. It is, however, just as bloated, requiring a level of familiarity with both its predecessors.

| Sep 2, 2020

At World's End is nearly three hours long, so it does feel a little padded, but for the most part the film moves at a reasonable pace - even if it almost stumbles to the finish while trying to tie up all the loose ends.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 21, 2019

Poised to bring in enough pirate booty to break the $1 billion box office barrier, from the end of the world to your town, set sail for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Yo ho, yo ho. It's a pirates life for me!!

| Nov 14, 2019

The buccaneers have charisma. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Overlong (it clocks in at 168 minutes, just shy of three hours long) and too frightfully busy to retain the nimble qualities of the original.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2019

But even spectacles have their limits. Eventually there has to be substance to go with all that style, and that's where "At World's End" falls short.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 30, 2019

I found it an improvement over Dead Man's Chest but just barely.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 12, 2019

What began as a thrilling and engrossing entertainer ends up as a terribly tedious franchisee -- the convoluted plot leaves you more confused than involved.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2019

A pirate's appeal is based in large part on his status as a renegade. But Verbinski gives us pirate codes, law books, and congresses-hardly the stuff of swashbuckling lore.

| Oct 16, 2018

The movie ends up like Davy Jones himself -- many-tentacled, full of bluster, and devoid of a beating heart.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 8, 2015

As epic summer movies go, At World's End was pretty good. But don't try to make sense of anything, or you may suffer an aneurysm.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 28, 2014

Just how much are you willing to forgive Johnny Depp and that sea-dog swagger of his?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2012

While it fails in matching the unpredictable excitement of the original, this is more of what I'd want in Pirates sequels. Just a little less of it.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 16, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

If nothing else, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End's ambition and moral ambiguity still set it apart from the pack, but as a send off to the trilogy it staggers across the finish line more than winning out right.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 25, 2011

Another piddling blockbuster with delusions of 'darkness'

| Aug 27, 2009

[Verbinski] borrows from a half-dozen mythologies to construct a fitting punishment for the culture of narcissism, compulsive consumption, and greed that makes movies like this one necessary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2009

Ho-hum, ho-hum - it's the same old bilge again!

| Jul 7, 2008