Perspective | The 10 best of movies of 2022: ‘Top Gun,’ ‘The Woman King’ and more

When it got here to this decades-in-the-making sequel, I used to be as skeptical as the subsequent snooty cinéaste — if solely as a result of the unique couldn’t presumably have aged that properly. (It didn’t age properly every week after it opened in 1986.) However Tom Cruise did it once more, disarming everybody’s defenses in a giant, old style movie-movie that outclassed the primary film in its good writing, canny casting, genuine emotion (nonetheless crying, Iceman) and daring, lovely manufacturing values. A blockbuster in one of the best sense of the phrase.