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Steven E. de Souza has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Die Hard.
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The Running Man
1987 · Movie · Writer
Top 34%Paramount+ · Included

48 Hrs.
1982 · Movie · Writer
Top 52%Netflix · Included

Judge Dredd
1995 · Movie · Writer
Top 77%Prime Video · Included

Beverly Hills Cop III
1994 · Movie · Writer
Top 78%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003 · Movie · Writer
Top 92%Paramount+ · Included

The Flintstones
1994 · Movie · Writer
Top 97%Prime Video · Included
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.
Dir. John McTiernan · With Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
Dir. Paul Michael Glaser · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, María Conchita Alonso
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
Dir. Andrew Fleming · With Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch

In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being falsely accused of murder.
Dir. Danny Cannon · With Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Armand Assante

When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.
Dir. John Landis · With Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Héctor Elizondo
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T
Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.
Dir. Michael Lehmann · With Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell

Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box. As the legendary artifact contains ancient mysteries of unfathomable power - said to contain one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara is tasked by MI6 to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. With the aid of former Marine turned mercenary Terry Sheridan, she travels the world in pursuit of the precious item in a race against time; she must beat the unscrupulous Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist, Jonathan Reiss, to it.
Dir. Jan de Bont · With Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds
A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
Dir. Tsui Hark · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon

Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.
Dir. Brian Levant · With John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Dir. Steven E. de Souza · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raúl Juliá, Kylie Minogue