What to See This Week (05/27/22)
Top Gun: Maverick
THIRTY-SIX years after Top Gun was released, Tom Cruise reprises his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Having worked his way up the ranks to captain, Maverick is now a trainer of a new generation of Top Gun graduates for a special mission, among them Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of his late best friend “Goose.” In the film, Maverick faces an uncertain future and must confront the ghosts of his past, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the movie stars Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, and Glen Powell. The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane writes, “Top Gun: Maverick works. Designed to coax a throng of viewers into a collective and involuntary fist pump, it far outflies the original, while retaining one old-fashioned virtue: the lofty action unfolds against real skies, rather than giant smears of C.G.I.” Review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer gives it a score of 97%.
MTRCB Rating: PG
