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Top Gun: Maverick

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Top Gun: Maverick

2022

Joseph Kosinski

Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm ...

7.0

27,103

Action. Drama After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Engineered to hit so many of the same pleasure points as the original, 'Top Gun: Maverick' what the earlier film unforgettably referred to as 'the need for speed.'"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Tom Cruise makes an absurdly exciting return to the skies (...) Thrilling, moving and gloriously Cruisey (...) the best studio action film in years (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It’s not a Tom Cruise movie so much as it’s 'Tom Cruise: The Movie,' and by the time it’s over, even his fiercest critics might have to admit that they’ll miss him when he’s gone."	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"A worthy, often exemplary follow-up to the 1986 classic. It’s everything a summer movie should be. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (ouf of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It is actually less progressive on gender issues than the original film, which did after all put a woman in charge (...) Cruise's movie-star chops are still miraculous (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"Tom Cruise's excellent 'Top Gun: Maverick' takes to the skies (...) this kind of movie isn’t made anymore (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"A crowd-thrilling sequel that easily surpasses the original (...) Few Hollywood reboots can boast this blend of nostalgia, freshness and adrenaline. You will want to high five someone on the way out (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"A glorious pulse-quickening sequel (...) See it on the biggest screen possible. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"'Top Gun: Maverick' improves upon the original in every conceivable way, and does so in a way that might make this one of the greatest sequels ever made (...) A marvel of a film, one that will truly take your breath away"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"It remains very easy to enjoy Cruise's roguish charm (...) But the picture's constant echoes of the original are only intermittently affecting, and new antagonists do not offer much nuance"	NEU
United Kingdom	Nicholas Barber BBC	"The new film improves on the old one in every respect. The story is cleverer and more gripping, the dialogue is sharper and funnier, (...) the aerial stunts are more likely to make you queasy (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd Gilchrist AV Club	"'Top Gun: Maverick' exceeds the original technically (....) Cruise commands the screen in a performance that leverages his multimillion-dollar star wattage to brighten the entire film"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Your enjoyment of 'Top Gun: Maverick' might depend on how much you’re willing to shut out the real world and surrender to movie-star magic."	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"'Top Gun: Maverick' is outstanding; the ultimate package of what you want from classic summer blockbuster entertainment (...) On some levels, it’s astonishing how seamless it works as a blockbuster."	POS
United States	Matt Donato IGN	"'Top Gun: Maverick' is good ol' cheesy as hell, silly-heroic entertainment with mile-high enthusiasm — a welcome throwback to simpler cinematic times."	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'Top Gun: Maverick'is the kind of film that demands you not think about it for even a moment, and for audiences willing to disengage at that level, it will succeed."	NEU
United States	Don Kaye Den of Geek	"'Top Gun: Maverick' is probably the best possible follow-up that fans of the late Tony Scott's original 1986 movie could hope for (...) Joseph Kosinski's legacy sequel checks off all the boxes (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"['Top Gun: Maverick'] fully surrenders to the grandiose fun that's marked the best of Cruise's recent star vehicles and reaffirms Kosinski as a blockbuster craftsman par excellence (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Ben Kendrick Screen Rant	"'Top Gun: Maverick' is a rare sequel that is not only better than the original but retroactively makes [Top Gun']'s story altogether deeper (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"Effortlessly tapping into its ’80s-ness, yet somehow still feeling fresh, Joseph Kosinki’s joyous 'Top Gun: Maverick' not only matches the original but also, in certain areas, is an improvement (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Conor O'Donnell The Film Stage	"The go-for-broke attitude with which 'Top Gun: Maverick' asserts itself is key to its success (...) The kind of rare, all-encompassing, and finely-tuned blockbuster that ––if you let it–– will take your breath away"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"[It]is a blast"	POS
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"Kosinski's witty adrenaline booster allows its leading producer to be exactly what he is —a star— while upping the emotional and dramatic stakes of its predecessor with a healthy dose of nostalgia (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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