'Top Gun: Maverick', the return of aviator Tom Cruise, and other premieres this weekend

Tom Cruise returns to fly military planes in style in

.

In the sequel to the blockbuster that he starred in in 1986, the actor stops being a pimp because he is to become a rebel with experience and even with reasons, and that fits better with contemporary times.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film embraces that kind of pub concord, between friends who respect each other while playing darts and pool, but who, in keeping with the American way of life, fight mercilessly for their lives. dreams.

On the other hand, in

, the director and former Minister of Culture Ángeles González-Sinde intends to address the indelible scars and the tragic survival of someone whose father was kidnapped and murdered by ETA.

The film tries to speak subtly about feelings, to be intimate, without embellishments, but it turns out to be lukewarm.

In

, the new film from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a woman, played by Tilda Swinton, tries to discover the origin of a strange noise deep in the jungle.

With such a simple premise, but at the same time so profound, Apichatpong articulates a film that is unequivocally his own: placid, suggestive, slow, at times fascinating and at times self-indulgent, which offers sensations of great introspection with the work itself and with oneself as a spectator. , but sometimes it is excessively opaque.

Finally, the Lebanese Mounia Akl makes her debut with

, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Seville Festival.

Dreams of grandeur, deployed in something as apparently insignificant but as commendable as a self-sufficient family coexistence project, are what end up dominating here a story that, as always, has in the patriarch of the family his almighty god who knows everything , or at least pretends to know.