Heart in the Clouds

This year's other aviator movie has no Cruise and a lot more feeling.

It’s hard not to be reminded of the Top Gun movies while watching the opening scenes of Devotion. The film cuts from sensuous close-ups of a Vought F4U Corsair fighter to the image of a bomber-jacketed Glen Powell—who was a scene-stealer in Top Gun: Maverick—as he drives alongside a plane taking off from a runway and struts onto the Quonset Point air station on the coast of Rhode Island. But this poignant aviation drama establishes its own tone as Powell’s Tom Hudner enters an empty locker room and hears a man’s voice in the bathroom muttering, “You ain’t worth shit.”