Eternal bachelor Tom Cruise is pulling the vain move of telling friends Ana de Armas "wasn't up to his standards" after their sudden breakup – a claim insiders tell RadarOnline.com masks the heartbreak of a man struggling to control a romance that slipped through his grasp.

The Mission: Impossible star, 63, split from Knives Out actress de Armas, 37, after an eight-month relationship that began with an intense courtship and ended in mutual exhaustion. Article continues below advertisement

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He and the actress, first photographed together on Valentine's Day and later seen on a romantic summer getaway in Vermont, had appeared

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