In Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to Tony Scott’s 1986 original, Cruise is Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a man trapped in the past, refusing to advance his career as resolutely as he refuses to do much of anything besides continue to prove he’s the greatest pilot in the world-a title the film never forgets to remind the audience that Maverick earned long ago-and mourn his best friend, Goose (Anthony Edwards), who died 35 years ago in an accident for which Maverick still feels responsible. Not quite four years since Mission: Impossible-Fallout and much of Tom Cruise’s purpose remains the same-if it hasn’t exactly grown in religious fervor. Stars: Tom Cruise, Jenifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Jay Ellis, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Greg “Tarzan” Davis Top Gun: Maverick Available on: Amazon, DirecTV, Fios/Verizon, Google Play, Spectrum You can also check out our guides to the best movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Hulu, YouTube, and at Redbox. The selections are up to date, but cable providers change their film on demand offerings regularly. Many of the cable companies have branded their Movies on Demand service, so Time-Warner and Charter customers will be looking for Spectrum, Comcast on-demand is branded Xfinity, Verizon goes by Fios and AT&T calls its program U-verse. That’s just the way of the distribution world. Funnily enough, many of our picks for the top of that yearly list are streaming service exclusives, so don’t be surprised to find some older (yet still incredible) films still lingering. Several of these films appear on our list of the Best Movies of 2022. We limited it to new VOD movies available to rent for less than $10.

We searched through the offerings of all of the above to bring you the Best Movies On Demand, though no one service offers them all. The competition for on-demand movies has grown in recent years beyond cable companies like Time-Warner, Charter, Cox Fios and Xfinity to online video-on-demand companies like FandangoNow and internet giants Amazon, Apple and Google.

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