And so Sony and “The Emoji Movie” will be fine, and life goes on, but the fear remains that we as theatergoers are made even more cynical. If the bar for originality is low, failure to meet ...

The Emoji Movie opens with a voiceover from T.J. Miller proselytizing about the glory of the smartphone, which, as it turns out, is not a great way to start a movie. “The world we live in,” he ...

Instead, The Emoji Movie acts like just bringing these points up will be enough, and turns on those ideals without a second thought the moment it needs to start wrapping things up.

But in the context of The Emoji Movie, it's a jarring experience that makes you feel like you're playing on your phone, rather than watching a movie. I was really hoping The Emoji Movie would work.

"The Emoji Movie" is a colorful and kid-friendly — if not particularly original — adventure that imagines a world inside our smartphones where each emoji is supposed to have a single ...

The Emoji Movie is now showing a highlight montage of all the scenes I just watched over the last 70 minutes. 11:54 a.m.: After the climatic scene, six people applauded. 11:55 a.m.: ...

The animated movie starring T.J. Miller as Gene, the "meh" emoji, who goes on an adventure in a teen's phone, received the dreaded 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Poochie of movies, “The Emoji Movie” is a not very good idea done poorly. It’s like the KFC Double Down: Sure, you could make a sandwich where the buns are flaming hot chicken patties ...

Early reviews of “The Emoji Movie” are in, and critics, to put it gently, aren’t giving the film a “Thumbs Up.” Critics offered generally unfavorable reviews for the Tony Leondis ...

Tony Leondis' kid-flick 'The Emoji Movie' tries to turn text-message punctuation into a colorful adventure. By THR Staff Here’s what you tell yourself when you accept an assignment to review a ...

In fact, the genesis of The Emoji Movie dates back to a bidding war that took place just over two years ago. Ad. Ad – content continues below. This is important.

So let us be clear that “The Emoji Movie” is not a soul-crushing disaster simply because its dramatis personae are the range of emotive faces and symbols that live inside your cell phone.