Top Gun: Maverick

2022 | 131 min | Action, Drama

Friday Night Flick

Why it’s a Friday Night Flick

Audiences adore it (8.2/10), it won an Oscar, it made about 9 times its budget and people are still talking about it. Make plans for this one.

Our take: A legacy sequel that outdid the original, with real in-cockpit flying and old-fashioned crowd-pleasing.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Have you seen it?

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

How it earned its rating

CriticsStrong
96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 78 on Metacritic
AudiencesVery strong
8.2/10 from 12K viewers
AwardsVery strong
5 wins, 14 other nominations — won Academy Award for Best Sound; nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture
Box office & staying powerVery strong
$1.5 billion worldwide on a $170 million budget
Buzz & cultural impactVery strong
1.9 million Wikipedia readers in the past year