Star Trek Reviews

There's going to be an entirely new generation of Trekkies to come from these films.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

A welcome reinvention of this most beloved sci-fi franchise

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The character work is consistently ace, but Star Trek 2009 doesn't offer the high-minded, underlying ideas that the show was known for.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

... it pleases me to report that the new film from Director J.J. Abrams pulled me (a Trek newbie) in like a Romulan tractor beam.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Salutes the rich history of the franchise while avoiding any hint of hokey, by-the-book starch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

One of the most accessible and entertaining films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Get ready for a new influx of fans, Trekkers.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Star Trek has needed this kind of face lift for years.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Star Trek is a welcome return to the flippant, big-budget bonanza that exists purely for the spectacle,

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A franchise is reborn, at warp speed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Well, it looks like the curse is broken.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Although given the Starship Enterprise?s keys, geek-culture maven J.J. Abrams warps the vessel like he stole it in a sleek, stylish reboot stuffed with jailbreak momentum, deft pacing, dense plotting, passionate principles and perfect casting.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

J.J. Abram's Star Trek is a refreshingly entertaining space adventurer, reinvigorating a well worn out franchise while paying homage to past labours.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Not content to just make this the Spock and Kirk show, with supporting players largely reduced to broad strokes, Abrams makes it clear that he's interested in Star Trek as an ongoing, fully fleshed-out ensemble piece.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Somehow J.J. Abrams has managed to make Star Trek cool again, with a fresh and fast-paced, action-packed thrill ride that both new and old fans can lavishly enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Thanks for the memories; let's leave it at that

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

One could melt into the luxury of the experience Mr. Abrams provides and objectively appreciate every penny spent in the budget as there is not a false or cheesy speck to be found on screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

A mindless, milling mess. Just what you would expect from somebody schooled in the Michael Bay/Jerry Bruckheimer academy of bad directing.

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This Star Trek will be exploring the cinematic universe for many years to come.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

...the film will go down, and endearingly so, as the Brokeback Mountain of space operas... In all the cosmos, a fatherless human and a motherless Vulcan find in one another that which they had lost.

Full Review | Original Score: A-