Review: Fine, Let's Talk About Digger

Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger

Its excesses may try one’s patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale.

Film Review: Digger - SLUG Magazine

Digger is a painting. I mean that very literally. You’ll just have to see it to get what I’m trying to say, but trust me, it’s a painting. Each set is unique and beautiful and huge and so thoughtfully constructed that it frequently reminds me of what I’ve seen on theater stages. … read more The post Film Review: Digger first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

‘Digger’ is a hollow spectacle

Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu has returned to theaters with the oddly underwhelming “Digger,” a movie that has all the tools to tell a compelling story but fails to extract anything from its political and environmental subject matter. Some of the best film actors today, a world brought together with practical effects and CGI and an...

‘Digger’ Review: Controlling the Narrative

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger is a towering epic of controlling personal and global narratives, whilst the world around the titular character, played excellently by Tom Cruise, crumbles due to an environmental disaster he created.

Review | ‘Digger’ buries itself in mediocrity

Rating: 5/10   **This review contains spoilers** Director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film, “Digger,” has not been met with high praise by most. The film’s ingredients hint at a lackluster watch: It is shamelessly meta, over-the-top in its takeaways and overtly reliant on the performances in it. However, all of this would be worth the...