The indelible Charlie Mortdecai, literary offspring of the English novelist Kyril Bonfiglioli, was featured in three marvelously funny novels before his creator died, of cirrhosis, at the age of 56.

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 ...

“Mortdecai” will leave any viewer with a number of pressing questions: who taught Gwyneth Paltrow to affect British? How many jokes about genitalia can be squeezed into a single film? What exactly ...

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!

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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.

Mortdecai is creeping into theaters with the flushed shame of a debutante who expects to be pelted with tomatoes. It’s a pity. In 1965, Mortdecai would be the hit of the year. Director David Koepp ...

The ad campaign for "Mortdecai," the new Johnny Depp comic caper film, is so befuddling, both opaque and overbearing, that a recent Vulture article spent several hundred words trying to decode what, ...

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 ...

The 2015 Johnny Depp movie Mortdecai is a wild, madcap character comedy powered by the presence of a leading man who loses himself with gleeful abandon in the absurd and wacky title role. Depp and ...

David Koepp's action comedy Mortdecai started filming a couple of months ago, and now some new cast members have joined in the fun. Lionsgate and OddLot Entertainment announced today that Aubrey Plaza ...

It’s hard to say exactly who the audience is for the zany curio “Mortdecai.” But those who do find their way into this supremely silly action-mystery caper are in for a few grins if not laughs thanks ...