After sinking into self-important tedium with its prior two overstuffed installments, Pirates of the Caribbean seemed destined for permanent burial at sea. And yet the soggy franchise and Johnny ...

Reinventing the franchise for this fourth installment, that swaggering, swashbuckling rogue Jack Sparrow finds romance as he searches not only for his lost ship, the Black Pearl, but also for the ...

In "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," Geoffrey Rush returns as duplicitous sea captain Hector Barbossa...but the role required a little more than a few well-timed sneers from franchise ...

At two hours and 16 minutes, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” the fourth film in the ridiculously successful Disney franchise, is the shortest in the series. But it still feels overlong ...

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer serves up another five-course meal of cinematic fast food, with all the familiar ingredients in exact measurements and just enough flavor to make them palatable. In this ...

Let’s be honest: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the movie everyone kind of wants to forget. Is it bad? Definitely not, but it just can’t match the emotional stakes of the other films.