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 ...

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 ...

The franchise contains many details you may miss unless you watch all the films in order, such as strange character arcs and the rules of the sea.

In the abstract, I’m kind of giddy that the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has reached its fourth installment, On Stranger Tides. Critics aren’t supposed to think such things, let alone say them ...