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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

I chuckled at those words, which means our species' potential to do itself in earned precisely one more laugh than "The Emoji Movie." Perhaps the mere existence of the movie is another arrow ...

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 ...

Hi-5 (James Corden), left, Gene (T.J.Miller) and Devil (Sean Hayes) with other emojis in Sony Animation’s “The Emoji Movie.” (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Perspective by Michael Cavna THERE ...

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 first full-length trailer for “The Emoji Movie” imagines what your favorite emojis are up to when you’re not using them. T.J. Miller stars as Gene, the only emoji in Textopolis capable ...

The poor reception is not good news for the $50 million movie and its big-name cast, including James Corden, Anna Faris, T.J. Miller and Maya Rudolph. “The Emoji Movie” debuts head-to-head at ...