Subject: Jerry Bruckheimer

• Come Fry With Me

  Crash 'n' burn Con Air never gets off the ground

  June 5, 1997

• New Faces of 1997

  Travolta and Cage Face/Off in mug-slinging match

  June 26, 1997

• Disasteroid

  All climax, no plot Armageddon deserves to be sent back to the meteor showers

  July 2, 1998

• Screenplayer

  Hollywood's legendary script doctor Robert Towne won an Oscar for writing Chinatown and polished films from The Godfather to Armageddon; now he helms Without Limits, a film bio of an Olympic runner

  September 17, 1998

• Enemy of the State: Totaliterrible

  Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott have a political agenda: It's called box office

  December 3, 1998

• Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer on Valkyrie

  December 25, 2008

• Cannes 2007: The Joy in the Bubble

  How many of these movies will you actually get to see?

  May 31, 2007

• Diamonds in the Rough

  March 22, 2007

• Tony Scott, Trailblazer

  Despite the title and familiar genre, Mr. Explosion says something new

  November 23, 2006

• That Sinking Feeling

  Coast Guard epic succumbs to watery clichés

  September 28, 2006

• Treasure Hunt

  The Pirates are back, and they're out to ransack your wallet

  July 6, 2006

• Assault 'N' Prepper

  Cannon goes undercover, fails to ignite

  September 1, 2005

• Bat Cave-In

  Origin story has Baleful side

  June 16, 2005

• Fortunate Son

  Stinky by-product of the studio system

  April 7, 2005

• Leaning Sideways

  December 30, 2004

• Cage Death Match

  November 18, 2004

• U.S.A-holes

  Trey Parker's puppets play for power in Team America: World Police

  October 14, 2004

• Saint Veronica

  A slick remake of a barely­fictionalized biopic renders Irish reporter Guerin's story as Hollywood truth.

  October 16, 2003

• Boys Gone Wild

  Michael Bay's back with Will and Martin, and the result is exactly what you'd expect

  July 17, 2003

• How Bad? Sinbad!

  Brad Pitt gets animated in a movie that's not -- not really

  July 3, 2003

• Think Different

  Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

  May 15, 2003

• 'Til Death. That's It.

  The In-Laws is bigger and broader than the original, but not better

  May 22, 2003

• Toss It Outback

  Kangaroo Jack is a real punch in the pouch

  January 16, 2003

• Fight Club

  When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

  July 11, 2002

• Smoking Rock

  Someone must have been to come up with Bad Company

  June 6, 2002

• Revolting

  The New Guy offers the same ol' dopey crap for kids

  May 9, 2002

• Chris Cross

  Behind the Greenlight is a producer proud to be an ass

  March 7, 2002

• Hell and Back

  Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

  January 17, 2002

• Devil's Advocate

  Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

  January 17, 2002

• The Brave & the Bold

  On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

  October 4, 2001

• Culture Shock

  How will Hollywood react now that real life is more terrifying than fiction?

  September 20, 2001

• High Travoltage

  Amped-up Swordfish offers fast relief from summer movie blahs

  June 14, 2001

• Snora! Tora! Bora!

  Overblown Pearl Harbor bombs all over again

  May 31, 2001

• Blow Up the Box

  TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched . . . and watched

  December 28, 2000

• Brat Outta Hell

  Only the devil could have possessed Adam Sandler to make such a bad movie, dragging half of Hollywood with him

  November 16, 2000

• Grid and Bear It

  Jerry Bruckheimer fumbles faux feel-good Remember the Titans

  September 28, 2000

• Silent Gunning

  Follow The Way of the Gun, where dialogue is sparse but memorable, and be rewarded

  September 7, 2000

• Write and Wrong

  Chris McQuarrie won an Oscar for Usual Suspects, to which Hollywood responded, 'Big deal'

  August 31, 2000

• Grrlll, Interrupted

  Coyote Ugly's tavern toughies fail bar exam

  August 10, 2000

• Good Riddance

  Someone take the wheel because Gone in 60 Seconds is lost in boring wreckage

  June 8, 2000

• The Implausible Scheme

  Logic-challenged M:I-2 still manages visceral pleasures

  May 25, 2000

• Pen Pals

  June 13, 1996