Film Review — Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise — just like Pete “Maverick” Mitchell — battles obsolescence with tropes and cheese in Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick, but his absolute commitment to analog spectacle is exhilarating; real actors in real planes equals real fun, and it’s unlike anything you’ve seen. Leaving its predecessor in the dust with visceral, aerial daring, Top Gun: Maverick puts you right in the cockpit of one of the year’s best action films. Minor spoilers ahead…