We took the Pirates of the Caribbean for granted and now we live with the consequences of our actions.

| Aug 29, 2024

Competently mounted if essentially uninspired action-adventure, with some anti-climactic moments, some cavernous dead spots, and a generally sputtering pace.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 19, 2022

While Depp has had numerous memorable roles, Captain Sparrow is by far the most intriguing of his characters and displays his talent as an actor.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 3, 2022

This comedy is well integrated into the story, helping us to get to know the characters and the relationships that arise between them, but always with the mind of offering the viewer pure popcorn entertainment of the first level. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 17, 2021

The one bright spot this summer has been Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ... The story-line ... is silly, but comprehensible and coherent, with traces of Robert Louis Stevenson.

| Feb 16, 2021

It's Johnny Depp who steals the show, creating a swashbuckling persona so outrageously regaling it would single-handedly guarantee sequels.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 9, 2020

There's always too much going on, which is easily forgivable for a while. But as the minutes mount, the flaws are only accentuated.

| Nov 16, 2019

Ahoy mateys! Shiver me timbers, I think we have a winner here!

| Nov 14, 2019

"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" remains a rarity among this summer's movies in that it not only meets audience expectations, it exceeds them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2019

This is about 45 minutes too long but it still holds up as a rousing old-school adventure movie like you might have gotten with Errol Flynn back in the day.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 12, 2019

A wonderful entertainer, thrilling, engrossing and stylish...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2019

It plays long but it all works because everyone has so much fun.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 4, 2018

Less Douglas Fairbanks than an aquatic Artful Dodger gone to seed, he's a high seas con man with a heart of tarnished stolen gold.

| Jun 26, 2016

One of a handful of legitimately bold, original summer tentpoles of the 2000s.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 30, 2014

Rip-roaring fun for kids who don't mind skeletons.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2010

Entertaining, exciting, and engrossing with a genuine feel of adventure along with excellent performances...

| Apr 29, 2009

Were it not for Johnny Depp's crassly reassured character creation of scoundrel pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, there would be nothing to relish in this overlong and witless waste of celluloid based on a Disneyland ride.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 18, 2009

It's just a lot of fun.

| Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Here -- in a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced high-seas adventure that incorporates roaring cannons, oddball comedy, a love story and more than a touch of the supernatural -- Depp unleashes his theatrical bravado. He's hilarious.

| Nov 1, 2007