But there’s more of commercial in this film than cinema, and the entire project stinks of that ‘obligatory Hollywood sequel’ stench.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2023

This badly constructed script drowns, and not for a lack of action. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2022

From the very opening scene, it's apparent that the magic that once coursed through the veins of the original has all but run dry.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 30, 2020

At his worst, Depp is better than a good 90% of the actors in Hollywood.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

My least favorite of the pirates movies. I like Blackbeard but mistake to make Jack the central character instead of a side character

| Aug 8, 2020

Shortly thereafter, the action shifts south again for a tag-team search for Ponce de León's Fountain of Youth. And that's when the tedium begins...

| Mar 6, 2020

[W]ith this fourth installment, sadly, while at times the film soars with reckless swashbuckling abandon, some of the wind appears to be out of its sails.

| Nov 16, 2019

[T]his is again essentially the same film told differently. Luckily, it's still just about entertaining enough to hold appeal thanks, largely, to [Johnny] Depp's performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2019

It's too bad they couldn't do more to make an almost completely new cast a bit more compelling.

| Jul 26, 2019

Director Rob Marshall has a striking visual eye, and the film certainly looks great, it's just kind of a mess - a shamelessly entertaining mess, but a mess just the same.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Sparrow is such a beloved character that giving him more screen time might at first seem like a good thing, but that isn't the case. Instead, his shtick gets repetitive rather quickly.

| Original Score: C- | May 8, 2019

As for the rituals, one of them involves a mermaid tear, which sparks two of my favorite scenes in the whole movie - because, omg, you guys. THE MERMAIDS ARE AWESOME.

| Mar 6, 2019

Getting a closer look at Geoffrey Rush's Captain Barbossa provides us with one of the most interesting turns in the series to date.

| Jan 14, 2019

Zombies, mermaids, pseudo-vampires -- Stranger Tides has got them all. What it doesn't have are surprises, laughs, satisfying action or any narrative drive.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Now we get the doddering version. Pirates of the Caribbean for Dummies. Everything explained. Long walks through the jungle during which nothing happens.

| Dec 14, 2018

Clocking in at just over two hours, the movie delivers only about half an hour of fun.

| Mar 22, 2018

The narrative of this series needs a major wake-up-call if it doesn't want to lull audiences to sleep with the same old fantasy plotting and repetitious action sequences.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 26, 2018

The newest chapter has a mermaid rampage shot like Ovidian Piranha outtakes, variously mummified cameos by Ponce de León and Keith Richards, and heightened contrasts between sandpapery skin and powdered perukes. In 3D! And it's entirely useless.

| Jan 9, 2018

It was WAY too long. It was WAY too bloated. It was WAY too self-indulgent. The plot was WAY too complicated.

| Oct 24, 2017

Eyeliner or not, Depp is still the reason to see the movie...to see any of the Pirate movies probably.

| Aug 25, 2017