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If you feel the need — the need for nostalgic callbacks galore — worry not. “Top Gun: Maverick” has you covered.

How does the classic work of propaganda hold up? And can its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, deliver decades later?

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…

It couldn’t outmaneuver the pandemic enemy that delayed its release for two years, but “Top Gun: Maverick” can’t lose, really.

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,…

After sitting on the shelf for two years due to the pandemic, “Top Gun: Maverick” is flying full throttle into theaters this week

IT WAS, let us not forget, a breathtakingly stupid film. Flashy as a parlour poodle, mired in power pop, Tony Scott’s Top Gun was the highest-grossing movie of 1986, a year not known for its good taste or restraint.