And the heartstring-fiddling hasn’t been this skillful since Matthew Crawley died in a car crash in Season 3. It’s wittier, thanks to new director Simon Curtis ( Cranford his wife, Elizabeth McGovern, plays Lady Grantham). Need a soothing antidote to the news? Let Downton’s denizens deliver you to 1928, in a movie that’s immensely better than the first one and on par with the nonpareil TV series. Watch it: Top Gun: Maverick , coming May 27 to theaters If an adrenalized and often shirtless Cruise can’t lure the over-50 crowd back into theaters, who can? -Thelma M. In fine form, Jennifer Connelly, 51, provides an age-appropriate romantic interest, and throat cancer survivor Val Kilmer returns for an emotional reunion as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. Maverick tries to mentor the resentful hotshot son of his late colleague Goose, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller), and leads a team of hotshot Top Gun grads to attack an unnamed enemy in an all-but-impossible aerial mission. Retirement? That’s not in the cards for this ace, who resists a desk job and bristles under his new boss (Jon Hamm, 51). Tom Cruise, 59, returns to play fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a rebel who refuses to be promoted out of the cockpit. ![]() The jet-fueled sequel to the 1986 flyboy classic has charisma to burn, soaring airplane indulgences and a narrative that honors the past while breaking the sound barrier as it shifts to the future.
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