Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick”
Terrific flight sequences sandwiched by nostalgic soap opera melodrama with tokenised women and minorities sidelined in what at times feels like an extendended commercial for men’s hair dye in a jingoistic frame
Edward Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front”
An intense, visceral and beautiful film with an incredibly effective minimalist score and breathtaking cinematography that says as much about inequality as it does war