‘Digger’ is the year’s big climate movie. This climate reporter hated it.

The review covers Digger, Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film starring Tom Cruise as an oil executive whose Greenland rig triggers an ice sheet collapse threatening to flood Europe. The critic, who covers climate for a living, says the film asks fair questions about individual responsibility for climate catastrophe but answers them with two hours of screaming rather than insight.

The plot has Cruise's character and a cartoonish president, played by John Goodman, choose to keep drilling and censor the words methane and climate change rather than address the crisis. The critic compares it unfavorably to Adam McKay's Don't Look Up, saying Iñárritu's film reaches a pitch of heavy-handedness that even that movie didn't attempt, wrapped in Wes Anderson-style production design.

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