Then again with a film as good as Josh Ruben’s “Heart Eyes,” everyone’s a winner. Ruben is the director of the brilliant 2021 ...

Heart Eyes' director Josh Ruben talks about combining Nora Ephron and 'Friday the 13th' to make an iconic killer for a new ...

A serial killer hunts happy couples in Josh Ruben’s satirical genre mash-up.

As with its personality-free killer, whose mask has two glowing heart eyes—thereby making him a murderous emoji—it’s a drearily generic affair. On a Seattle winery’s hillside overlooking a misty ...

The holiday slasher flick “Heart Eyes” (★★★ out of four; rated R; in theaters Friday) takes a sharp machete to all that. Yes, it does juggle the many tropes of two different genres but ...

“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.

For three Februaries in a row, the still-at-large Heart Eyes Killer, so named for emoji-shaped holes in a mask, has brutally murdered couples in Boston, Philadelphia and Seattle, where this film ...