‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Film Review: A Legacy Sequel for the Ages

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) is an action-drama film from director Joseph Kosinski and writers Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie. A sequel to the 1986 original Top Gun, it stars Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he is brought on to train a new generation of pilots for a near-impossible mission. The film debuted at CinemaCon and also screened at Cannes Film Festival ahead of its May 27th release. Why has it drawn such wild acclaim?