Peter Bart: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has revived the box office, but faceless villains and formulaic plot pale in comparison to great war movies like ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’
Having paid my $8.50 to see Top Gun: Maverick last weekend my local cineplex inadvertently boosted my appreciation of the film. For three minutes the sound stopped and, minus the dialogue, I was instantly taken in by the soaring jets, hyper-caffeinated cast and enduring charisma of its star. Then the sound came back, the story …