Top Gun

Top bundt: how I made Tom Cruise’s Christmas cake list for the second year running

Two more deluxe coconut gateaux winged their way to me this year, without any begging. Evidence if ever it was needed of Cruise’s very hectic year

Stuart Heritage

13, Dec, 2022 @10:38 AM

Plane sinks ship as Top Gun: Maverick overtakes Titanic in US ticket sales

The belated sequel to 1986’s Top Gun moves to seventh in the list of highest domestic grossing movies and is Tom Cruise’s first film to top $1bn globally

Catherine Shoard

08, Aug, 2022 @2:51 PM

In need of light relief? Top Gun: Maverick is a reminder that Tom Cruise has still got it | Emma Brockes

The sequel is a nostalgic, fun comeback for an actor whose real-life persona makes it easy to forget how good he is on-screen, writes Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes

08, Jun, 2022 @2:00 PM

No, Top Gun: Maverick’s success isn’t down to being pro-America and anti-woke | Jesse Hassenger

Rightwing pundits have tried to claim the sequel’s box office success as their success but there are enough examples to show that this isn’t the case

Jesse Hassenger

03, Jun, 2022 @6:11 AM

Top Gun: Maverick sparks joy in Taiwan after its flag features on Tom Cruise jacket

Reports of cheers at an advance screening as Hollywood risks anger in Beijing at depiction on apparel of Cruise’s Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell

Sian Cain

01, Jun, 2022 @5:12 AM

Top Gun: Maverick review – irresistible Tom Cruise soars in a blockbuster sequel

Cinema’s favourite ageless fighter pilot returns with all the nail-biting aeronautics and emotional sucker punches that made the original an 80s-defining hit

Mark Kermode

29, May, 2022 @7:00 AM

What links Top Gun: Maverick to Dennis Rodman and The Outsiders?

The new Tom Cruise flyboy sequel is out, so follow it down the rabbit hole to ER, a Bull in Korea and Francis Ford Coppola

Larry Ryan

28, May, 2022 @12:00 PM

Top Gun for hire: why Hollywood is the US military’s best wingman

Film-makers get to borrow expensive bits of kit on the cheap, but the Pentagon uses movies as a propaganda machine

Steve Rose

26, May, 2022 @3:00 PM

A question of style: will Top Gun’s apple-pie nostalgia work its magic in 2022? | Jess Cartner-Morley

The original film’s James Dean T-shirts and flying jackets harked back to a safer, more wholesome era. Three decades later, its sequel will try the same trick

Jess Cartner-Morley

20, May, 2022 @3:00 PM

‘Would you ask Gene Kelly that?’: defiant Tom Cruise dazzles Cannes

A hero’s welcome met the star of two Top Guns and countless Mission: Impossible movies as he took part in a toothless Q&A carried by that mega-watt grin

Peter Bradshaw

18, May, 2022 @4:51 PM

Top Gun: Maverick review – Tom Cruise is still speedy, less needy in a rock’n’roll sequel

Cruise presides over some surprising differences from his first outing as the navy pilot hotshot in a film that’s missing the homoerotic tensions of the 80s original