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 ...

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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 ...

Even before the cast of Tron: Legacy had a chance to get off the stage, Captain Jack Sparrow dropped in for a special Comic-Con message. Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On ...

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 ...

In the early 2000s, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean introduced moviegoers to one of the decade’s most iconic film characters: Johhny Depp’s quick-witted pirate lord, Captain Jack Sparrow. On the ...

Like a true captain, Johnny Depp is going to go down with the ship. Again and again and again. “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” is Captain Jack Sparrow’s fourth big, bloated boat trip.