Digger: Tom Cruise Enters Iñárritu’s Endgame
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Digger: Tom Cruise Enters Iñárritu’s Endgame
Whether you love it or hate it, one thing is certain: ‘Digger’, by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is made of those materials that breathe such life into every cinematic frame that the viewer’s entire being is shaken. Ambitious, lost inside its own screenwriting labyrinth, but also a cinema that takes risks, confronts its audience, and turns into poetry everything caught by the sensitive antennae of its artists: first and foremost, the theatricalit…
Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film is an extraordinary combination of a $125 million Hollywood spectacle and a distinctly auteur vision, starring Tom Cruise as oil tycoon Digger Rockwell. An incredibly accurate and sharp satire of a world that has brought the environmental crisis to such a point that there is no apparent way out.
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Did ‘Digger’ dig deep enough?
Regardless of its reception, “Digger” will go down as the last film released by Warner Bros. prior to its official merger with Paramount, marking the end of an era in Hollywood. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s eighth feature film examines the value of creativity at a time when reality has become stranger than fiction. Iñárritu teams up with Tom Cruise for a scathing examination of society’s downfall. “Digger” is an audacious climate-chan…
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