‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.

A Vox critic pushes back on negative reviews of Digger, Alejandro Iñárritu's new climate-change allegory starring Tom Cruise as an oil tycoon and John Goodman as a ghoulish U.S. president. Despite poor box office and reviews calling it ugly, loud, and unpleasant, the writer argues the sensory overload is deliberate commentary in the tradition of films like Uncut Gems and Eddington.

The film turns out to be a play-within-a-movie: Cruise's oil-tycoon villain is revealed to be an actor performing in a stage production about a real historical disaster, forcing characters and audience alike to argue over whether climate catastrophe should be told as farce or tragedy. The critic calls this structure intellectually compelling even while acknowledging Iñárritu himself admitted the movie isn't perfect.

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