'Digger' Review: At Least 'Cocktail' Looked Like Fun
Tom Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an oil billionaire whose mansion scenes and abrasive performance drive the film’s review.
- Alejandro Gonzalez's latest film, Digger, stars Tom Cruise as a foul-mouthed oil billionaire whose Greenland drilling operations trigger a catastrophic ice shelf collapse threatening the European coastline.
- Despite featuring a prestigious cast including Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma, Jesse Plemons, and Riz Ahmed, the film has drawn harsh criticism for its 'divisive' and 'weird' narrative choices.
- John Goodman plays the President of the United States in a performance critics compare to Trump, while Emmanuel Lubezski provides cinematography described as 'flat' and 'lifeless'.
- Critics characterize the film as 'claptrap' imitating Stanley Kubrick and Roy Andersson, representing an 'interesting failure' rather than a coherent narrative.
- The film concludes with Cruise's character clinging to Maggie, an animatronic cat, as reviewers warn the narrative is a 'waste of one's time'.
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Digger: Tom Cruise leans into one of his career’s most remarkable performances with glee
Alejandro G Iñárritu digs even deeper into dark comedy and satire, and retreads his Birdman’s theatre-cum-real life territory, to give us a caricaturish and cartoonish view of the rich and the powerful.
A real swing in the air when "Birdman" director Alejandro González Iñárritu returns to the meta-satire genre with "Digger." A film about US imperialism and ruthlessness towards mother nature, or a commentary on the emptiness of art in the face of the apocalypse, perhaps. It's unclear, says film critic Kristoffer Viita.
The star once again gives a twist to his career led by González Iñárritu but he will not convince everyone
'Digger' Review: At least 'Cocktail' looked like fun
There’s only so much one can say about Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger without dipping into spoiler territory. Warner Bros. has asked those of us writing about it to avoid revealing plot points in our reviews beyond what’s necessary, and I’m honor-bound to respect that here. One doesn’t need a spoiler warning to say that it’ll be “divisive” or “weird” or that “Tom Cruise gives a very different performance than you’re used to!” Nor does one …
Digger is one of the most anticipated films of this final of 2026, being the return of Alejandro González Iñárritu after Bardo, in addition to being his first collaboration with Tom Cruise.With Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu presents a film with a dark and risky tone, which works in various aspects; but in others it falls before his own expectation.
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