Tom Cruise was last at Cannes in 2022, when the film festival gave him an honorary Palme d’Or and, in return, got one of the last bona fide Hollywood stars to grace their red carpet as he launched “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Impossible character Ethan Hunt gamely takes on the burden, ad nauseam, of saving the world, Cruise genuinely thinks he can save cinema. His optimism is touching, if unrealistic. But as hard as he, and we,

The Final Reckoning” has landed a May 30 release date in Chinese theaters. The Tom Cruise-led action tentpole joins a growing slate of Hollywood fare making its way into the Middle Kingdom this year,