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‘Spiderhead’ review: In a remote prison, Chris Hemsworth leads drug trials in a pill of a Netflix thriller

“Spiderhead,” now streaming on Netflix for the undemanding, brings up the challenge of stretching a short story into conventional feature film length without the whole thing going sideways.

Chicago Tribune

Review: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and 'Top Gun' director unite for the good-enough 'Spiderhead'

What do you get by mixing a New Yorker short story, the writers of "Deadpool," the director of "Top Gun: Maverick" and stars Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller? "Spiderhead" — an intelligent, sometimes moving, sometimes funny sci-fi examination of emotional autonomy amid futuristic pharmaceuticals, until an awkward shift into thriller…

Los Angeles Times

Movie review: ‘Spiderhead’ fails to make most of its intriguing, drug-induced premise

“Spiderhead” is rich in human resources.

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Chris Hemsworth finds a rich groove in 'Spiderhead'

Director Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi prison thriller “Spiderhead" is in many wants the opposite of his “Top Gun: Maverick.”

The Independent UK

Val Kilmer explains his 'Top Gun: Maverick' return and 'authentic friendship' with Tom Cruise

The Iceman cometh again, this time as a friend. And as Val Kilmer tells The Times, "I can't believe how kind the whole world has been. ... It's very humbling."

Los Angeles Times

‘The Cruise mythology’: Why Top Gun’s star is ‘action fit’ compared to original co-stars

Why Top Gun mega star Tom Cruise looks action fit compared to his original co-stars, and why only one was invited to return for the blockbuster sequel.

The New Daily

'Top Gun: Maverick' Director To Team Up With Apple, Brad Pitt For Formula 1 Movie

"Top Gun: Maverick" has been a smashing success at the box office and now the director of the film, Joseph Kosinski, has a new gig: a Formula One movie starring Brad Pitt produced with Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL).

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How 'Top Gun: Maverick' made those groundbreaking aerial scenes soar

Before filming "Top Gun: Maverick," with actors taking real G-forces in Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets sporting Imax-grade cameras, cinematographer Claudio Miranda pulled a Tom Cruise and climbed into the cockpit himself.

Los Angeles Times

Top Gun: Maverick breaks another record in second week of release

This weekend’s earnings bring Joseph Kosinski’s new film’s income to approximately $290m (£232m)

The Independent UK

"Top Gun" isn't anti-woke, but pro-balls

Why are conservatives so desperate to claim this as their movie? It's basically a two-hour, 11-minute Cialis ad

Salon

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

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.

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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…

Chicago Tribune

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.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘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,…

The Independent UK

'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

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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

Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

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

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…

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