Collection
Pirates of the Caribbean
Five voyages with Captain Jack Sparrow.
Which order? Release order; the first is the best by a distance.
The films, in release order
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003Gore Verbinski’s pirate adventure is warm, funny and overlong. Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush make it easy to recommend, though the repeated swordfights and thin romance test the goodwill their performances earn.Fi1m 81 - 2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006Gore Verbinski’s second voyage has a magnificent villain in Bill Nighy’s Davy Jones and two set pieces we would show anyone, and it buries them under a plot with more moving parts than a clock. Worth it for the monster.Fi1m 63 - 3
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007Gore Verbinski’s third voyage has one sequence of real wonder and a battle in a whirlpool worth seeing, wrapped in an hour of pirates renegotiating their alliances in dim rooms. Some things here to admire; not enough to send you back to sea.Fi1m 55 - 4
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011Rob Marshall trims the cast, keeps Johnny Depp and delivers one good chase and one properly frightening attack by mermaids. Between them lies a great deal of walking, and a film that has stopped being strange and settled for being long.Fi1m 45 - 5
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales 2017New directors, a proper villain and one good robbery cannot hide that Jeff Nathanson’s script is the first film run again with the life let out. Bardem earns his floating fringe; Depp is doing an impression of himself.Fi1m 45
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