Heart Eyes is like a box of assorted Valentine’s Day chocolates, offering up a variety of different flavors—Horror! Romance!

I repeat, hours -- after writing that Hollywood never releases a classic romantic movie on Valentine's Day, I see a film that ...

“It was always in the script that it would be some sort of twisted version of the heart eyes emoji, which my shoulders went up a bit at the prospect of what that might be,” he said.

It comes as no surprise that his follow-up would do the same thing for another underwhelming subgenre. “Heart Eyes” raises the bar for emoji movies, which sounds like faint praise since “The Emoji ...