In The Emoji Movie, a malfunctioning Meh emoji named Gene (T.J. Miller) escapes from a text app so he can be reprogrammed (and subsequently saved from deletion) by an infamous hacker. He travels ...

"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 ...

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 ...

What to do with “The Emoji Movie‘s” box office debut? Should it get a thumbs up? A thumbs down? Should we simply throw up our hands and leave it alone? Here are the facts: Sony Animation’s ...

You knew it was going to happen sooner or later — an aspect of our everyday habits made into a movie. And Sony was the studio that dove in and did it. "The Emoji Movie" opens this weekend ...

Yet with The Emoji Movie, starring TJ Miller and James Corden, movie critics and analysts are treading new ground, using their platform to express an almost existential disdain for the movie.

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 ...

So going into The Emoji Movie this week, I felt a similar trepidation as I did going into that 2014 animated adventure, but I also had a sense of optimistic belief, knowing that there was a chance ...

On Thursday, my friend and colleague, Matt Singer, suggested I should see The Emoji Movie. I want to be clear, it wasn’t necessarily a recommendation because he liked it (he did not), but just ...

And we were all worried about “The Lego Movie” before we saw it. So let us be clear that “The Emoji Movie” is not a soul-crushing disaster simply because its dramatis personae are the ...

A movie based on emojis from our cellphones. And yet, The Emoji Movie almost proves its detractors wrong. The film is given the building blocks for what could have been a serviceable, but not ...

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 c ...