In this film Johnny Depp appears as Mortdecai, a British dolt who emerges from a series of potentially disastrous scrapes unscathed. Recalling the incredible luck of Peter Seller’s Chief Inspector ...

That’s it. If you read it out loud, you sound like a cult member proclaiming the imminent return of an ancient deity in the body of his human prophet: “Johnny Depp is Mortdecai! Mortdecai! January 23!

Translating books into films has to be difficult enough, but translating a comedic one must be the pinnacle of problematic for screenwriters. First, they must decide if they'll keep the book's sense ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The Charlie Mortdecai thrillers are darker and stranger than any film of them could be. Sam Leith raises a glass to the original Bon vivant Twenty seconds or so into the trailer for his new film, a ...

If you're going to see one movie about a dandy, mustachioed gentleman on a caper involving stolen artwork and featuring an appearance by Jeff Goldblum, make it "The Grand Budapest Hotel." However, if ...

Should the recent surge in male facial hair as a fashion accessory stall in 2015, barbers would be within their rights to blame “Mortdecai,” a perky but obstinately unfunny heist caper with a hero ...

“Mortdecai” is mortdifying, a mortdal sin of a movie that’s headed for the cinematic mortduary. Bertie Wooster meets Austin Powers in the person of the title character, an English lord played by a ...

PLOT SUMMARY The film opens with an interior shot of a kitschy Oriental restaurant and the camera pans across the room, till it reaches Mortdecai’s table, where he is seated with a group of Chinese.

Thumbnail: Johnny Depp's scenery-chewing lead occasionally grates, but Mortdecai works as a low-stakes comic mystery that is refreshingly aimed squarely at adult moviegoers. It does not deserve the ...

Johnny Depp has done so much for us. Let us now return the favor and pretend “Mortdecai,” a disastrously misjudged career low, never existed. Before we wipe the record clean, you may wish to know what ...