Yes, Tom Cruise is back with a bang in the Oscars ring in his best performance since 1999’s Magnolia (it’s unbelievable to think it was in another millennium when Cruise last earned an acting nod).
However, Cruise ain’t gonna win nothing if the Academy voters are repelled by the massive roll of the dice of perception that Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu (himself no stranger to Oscars glory, having triumphed with both Birdman and The Revenant) takes here.