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Top Gun Maverick: The Most Insidious Movie at the Oscars

Sally Kohn: Why are all action heroes named Jack, James, or John? She wants to know what's up with that. Slate writer Demetria Glace says maybe it's just that the names are common. But she goes on at great lengths to talk about Top Gun Maverick as warmongering and a glorification of worst things ever. Kohn: I don't know why you call it insidious. It's right there on the surface. The movie made $700 million in the United States because Americans like to see big American planes blowing up Iranian nuclear sites.

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