Search: Directed by J J Abrams

Alias: Season 4 (2004)
The continuing story of the beautiful spy and her lovable, detestable, sexy and deceitful friends.
Alias: Season One (2001)

Review preview for Alias: Season One

Alias is intelligently-written, notably complex and deserves to be more well-known that it is.

Stephen Carty · 4.5 out of 5

A college grad black-ops spy, becomes a double agent to bring down corruption.
Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Review preview for Mission: Impossible III

Abrams combines kinetic action sequences with internal logic-fuelled storytelling to give us an impossible mission head, shoulders and a rabbit's foot above the previous two instalments.

Stephen Carty · 3.5 out of 5

The Ethan Hunt franchise gets personal, while chasing a psychopathic arms dealer half way round the globe.
Star Trek (2009)

Review preview for Star Trek

JJ Abrams rescues Rodenbury's creation from the pop culture scrap heap and produces a very likeable romp.

Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5

James T Kirk joins Starfleet and meets a tormented Spock threatened by a vengeful Romulan in this reboot of the Star Trek franchise.
Super 8 (2011)

Review preview for Super 8

More nervous children (and adults) would be well advised to stay away. Everybody else should go and see it as soon as possible.

Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5

A train-wreck leads to an encroaching mystery.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Review preview for Star Trek Into Darkness

The baddie's been beefed up, the plot's been pared down, but the emotional core which really sold the first film—the magnificent character interaction—remains unscathed.

Max Crawford · 4.5 out of 5

With Starfleet in chaos and other ships destroyed, the crew of the USS Enterprise must venture alone to a dangerous world where one man could hold the fate of the galaxy in his hands.