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.

“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.

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 ...