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Alex Kurtzman has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Star Trek.
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Star Trek
2009 · Movie · Writer
Top 2%Paramount+ · Included

Star Trek Into Darkness
2013 · Movie · Writer
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

Fringe
2008 · Series · Creator
Top 13%Hulu · Included

Transformers
2007 · Movie · Writer
Top 23%Hulu · Included

The Island
2005 · Movie · Writer
Top 23%Paramount+ · Included

Mission: Impossible III
2006 · Movie · Writer
Top 29%Paramount+ · Included

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
Dir. J.J. Abrams · With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Dir. J.J. Abrams · With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldaña
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams · With Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole

Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
Dir. Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Peter M. Lenkov · With Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Ian Anthony Dale
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Mark Ryan

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.
Dir. J.J. Abrams · With Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
Dir. Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman · With Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush

For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
Dir. Marc Webb · With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx

Roll out with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Arcee, Ratchet, Bulkhead, and the rest of the heroic Autobots as they battle the evil Decepticons. Now that big bad Megatron has returned with a mysterious and dangerous element, Team Prime must prepare for an epic battle.
Dir. Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Duane Capizzi, Jeff Kline · With Peter Cullen, Jeffrey Combs, Frank Welker

Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Phillip Iscove, Len Wiseman · With Tom Mison, Janina Gavankar, Lyndie Greenwood

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman · With Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Dir. Michael Bay · With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Peter Cullen

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Adrian Alonso

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
Dir. Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman · With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Annelle Olaleye

In 1993, six months after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Agent Clarice Starling returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.
Dir. Jenny Lumet, Alex Kurtzman · With Rebecca Breeds, Nick Sandow, Michael Cudlitz

Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman, Kirsten Beyer, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon · With Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Dir. Jon Favreau · With Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
Dir. Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman · With Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman · With Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella

Each episode tells a stand-alone story that serves as an opportunity for deeper storytelling and exploration of key characters and themes that fit into Star Trek: Discovery and the expanding Star Trek universe.
Dir. Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller
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