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David Koepp has 33 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Jurassic Park.
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Carlito's Way
1993 · Movie · Writer
Top 3%Starz · Included

Stir of Echoes
1999 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 12%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Cold Storage
2026 · Movie · Writer
Top 13%MGM+ · Included

Angels & Demons
2009 · Movie · Writer
Top 17%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Death Becomes Her
1992 · Movie · Writer
Top 26%Paramount+ · Included

Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005 · Movie · Writer
Top 38%Netflix · Included
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller

After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Dir. David Koepp · With Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
Dir. Jonny Campbell · With Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery, Sosie Bacon

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer

Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.
Dir. Jon Favreau · With Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard

After federal agents arrest a drug czar and put him on trial, the cartel leader's vicious son storms a prep school and takes its students hostage. They rebel against the armed intruders and try to take back their academy by any means necessary.
Dir. Daniel Petrie Jr. · With Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan

Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close

In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.
Dir. David Koepp · With Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Tiiu Essex

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
Dir. David Koepp · With Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Dir. David Fincher · With Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker

Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Dir. James Mangold · With Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.
Dir. Gareth Edwards · With Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Zoë Kravitz, Byron Bowers, Jaime Camil

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
Dir. David Koepp · With Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello

Wimpy young executive Michael is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in—and then disappears. Later that night, Michael runs into a stranger on a pier, who wheedles his way into Michael's life and turns it upside down.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With James Spader, Rob Lowe, Lisa Zane

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner

Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...
Dir. Craig R. Baxley · With Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley

Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power to cloud men's minds", The Shadow comes blazing to the rescue with explosive results.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller

In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Dir. David Koepp · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Tom Burke

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. Determined to solve the crime, he quickly learns that his search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue, and danger.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino

Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy
A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.
Dir. David Koepp · With Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney
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