"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 ...

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 ...

“The Emoji Movie” takes us into the world of Alex ... Parents might not learn anything about their kids’ habits on smartphones, and kids won’t get a better understanding of how their ...

So why was “The Emoji Movie” able to overcome the Tomatometer? Three reasons: 1.) Kids don’t pay attention to critics Audience polls for CinemaScore tend to give animated movies an A or an A ...

Today in unfolding PR disasters: the marketing team behind "The Emoji Movie" — a computer-animated kids' movie about anthropomorphic digital hieroglyphs, in which Patrick Stewart plays a piece ...

Don't Edit "The Emoji Movie" (Photo provided to MLive.com by Sony ... into the digital realm of a smartphone owned by a human kid, Alex (Jake T. Austin). Gene’s ability to be more than just ...

Because ‘The Emoji Movie’ could not be more meh ... Spotify, and (for the kids!) Dropbox.” “This failed attempt to create a story from a texting trend makes the worst comic book ...

One possible explanation is that “The Emoji Movie’s” performance doubles down on the theory that films targeting children are the most critic-proof. That is, considering kids are more likely ...

Once upon a time, something like ‘The Emoji Movie’ would be regarded as a dire ... ‘words,’ as the kids in the film agree, ‘aren’t cool’ anymore; and Patrick Stewart making jokes ...