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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 7 - Caught on Camera

Review: Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise’s long-delayed return flight.

Reason

'Top Gun: Maverick' review: A Danger Zone of absolute summer perfection

A sequel to the 1986 classic, 'Top Gun: Maverick' soars past its historic legacy with an almost perfect immersive thrill ride.

Inverse

17 ‘Top Gun’ callbacks to watch for in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

If you feel the need — the need for nostalgic callbacks galore — worry not. “Top Gun: Maverick” has you covered.

Los Angeles Times

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Top Gun: Maverick sees Tom Cruise reprise star-making role more than three decades on

Shot in g-force conditions and with real fighter jets, Top Gun: Maverick bucks Hollywood’s reliance on computer-generated effects to deliver an authentic adrenaline rush.

ABC News

Movie review: 'Top Gun: Maverick' deserves the full theatrical experience

Nostalgia as escapism is ubiquitous. But what if nostalgia could be a force for good? Not an inelegant poke in the dopamine receptors, but rather, transcendent, even galvanizing, as it is in the case of Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick,” a legacy sequel that that allows the viewer to luxuriate…

Tribune News Service

Movie review: Tom Cruise is the ‘Old Man’ showing next-generation aviators how to fly in 'Top Gun: Maverick'

It couldn’t outmaneuver the pandemic enemy that delayed its release for two years, but “Top Gun: Maverick” can’t lose, really.

Chicago Tribune

‘Top Gun’ and Tom Cruise Return to the Danger Zone

In 1983, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was flipping through the May issue of California magazine when he was struck by a story. “Top Guns” read the headline, with a large photograph from inside the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet. The story opened: “At Mach 2 and 40,000 feet over California,…

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'Top Gun' and Tom Cruise return to the danger zone

After sitting on the shelf for two years due to the pandemic, “Top Gun: Maverick” is flying full throttle into theaters this week

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

The Independent UK

Top Gun director explains why he axed Kelly McGillis and Meg Ryan from sequel

Joseph Kosinski has said that he wanted to bring new characters into the film, which is why he's not bringing back Kelly McGillis, who was one of the lead roles in the original film

Daily Mirror

Back to normal? Cannes Film Festival prepares to party

After the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was canceled by the pandemic and the 2021 edition was scaled back — even kisses were forbade on the red carpet — the lavish French Riviera cinema soiree is set to return with a festival that promises to be something like normal

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

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Los Angeles Times

Review: Tom Cruise flies high — again — in the exhilarating 'Top Gun: Maverick'

"If you think, you're dead." That's one of Tom Cruise's more memorable lines from "Top Gun," a cautionary reminder that when your engine flames out or an enemy pilot locks you in their sights, hesitation means death. Inadvertently, the line also suggests the best way to enjoy Tony Scott's immortal…

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick director explains why two major characters didn’t return for sequel

Joseph Kosinski admitted he never considered bringing either back

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise soars in a sequel that’s as thrilling as blockbusters get

There’ll need to be a reckoning over the film’s politics and its treatment of women, but for now... we fist-pump

Input

Top Gun: Maverick is a cinematic joyride, but Dolby Atmos is the real star

"This is a movie that is designed to be seen on the biggest screen you can find and the best sound system in your town," Maverick director Joseph Kosinski tells us in an interview.

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The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick director explains why two major characters didn’t return for sequel

Joseph Kosinski admitted he never considered bringing either back

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick called ‘best film of the year’ in overwhelmingly positive first reactions

Long-awaited movie has been branded ‘the perfect sequel’

The Independent UK

Top Gun: Maverick called ‘best film of the year’ in extremely positive first reactions

Long-awaited movie has been branded ‘the perfect sequel’

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tom Cruise Unveils 'Top Gun' Sequel with Mid-air Stunt

Tom Cruise unveiled the world-first screening of "Top Gun: Maverick" at CinemaCon in Las Vegas Thursday -- introducing the long-awaited sequel while balanced atop a flying bi-plane. The new "Top Gun," which picks up the story of Maverick and his fighter pilot buddies some three decades after the blockbuster original,…

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