Top Gun: Maverick – 7.5

Predictable, cliched, unrealistic and a total throwback, but what a pleasure, after Petite Maman, Everything Everywhere, and Crimes of the Future, to  see a movie that made us cheer, laugh and cry, all on cue. Jennifer Connelly is a treat on the eyes, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, the supporting cast, led by Jon Hamm, is fun. Moral issues about war are minimized by never naming or showing the, literally, faceless enemy. In fact, despite all the action shots of aerial dogfights, the bigger enemy is the military bureaucracy. We can all unite against that!