Looking back at last year’s Summer Movie Preview, most of the titles we were most keen to see lived up to our expectations, e.g., the global blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick,” which finally turned that Tommy Cruise fellow into a movie star; the gritty and grounded Adam Sandler basketball film “Hustle”; the Austin Butler starmaking vehicle “Elvis,” and the dark thrills we gleaned from “Black Phone,” “Nope” and “Emily the Criminal.”
Then again: the less said about “The Gray Man” and “Jurassic World: Dominion,” the better.
